Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wayne Tennyson Blackburn (July 10, 1914 in Mount Joy, Ohio February 16, 2000 in Portsmouth, Ohio) was a major league baseball coach and minor league player-manager.Blackburn was an infielder nineteen years (1936-1956), all in the minor leagues, losing one year to military service and one year to inactivity. Blackburn drew over 1400 walks in 2016 minor league games. From 1948-1956, he had 715 hits and 742 walks in 711 games. He led the 1936 KITTY League with 124 runs, the 1943 American Association with 114 runs, and the 1951 KITTY with 116 runs. He also led the 1948 Southern Association with 36 SB.Blackburn was briefly a player-manager at the end of the season in 1937 for the Peoria Reds of the Three-I League. Blackburn really began his managerial career in 1951 with the Owensboro Oilers. He moved to the Detroit Tigers farm system, where he was a player-manager in the minors (1952 1954, 1956), minor league manager (1958, 1965 1966, 1968) and major league coach (1963 1964).