He isn’t just a baseball unicorn, he’s a professional unicorn.
In 1977, Brian Snitker took his first professional at-bat for Kingsport in the Appalachian League, as a 21-year-old in the Atlanta Braves Minor League system. In four seasons as a player, he worked his way through the Minors - peaking at the Triple-A level for six games in 1978 - but spending almost half of his 236 career games at Double-A.
At 25, in 1981, he retired as player to become a coach in the Braves organization. The following season, the former catcher became the Manager for Anderson in the Single-A South Atlantic League, starting him on a path that has earned him 602 wins as Manager of the Atlanta Braves, through the All-Star break in the 2023 season.