However, Fox would spend another 53 years at the Major and Minor League level as a player, manager, scout and coach for the Giants, who relocated to San Francisco in 1958.

Fox spent more than a half-century in professional baseball, including stints as manager of the Montreal Expos and Chicago Cubs as well as the Giants.

Fox finally made it, late in 1942, for three games, going 3-for-7 at the plate in his only major-league playing action, before going into the Navy for three years of service during World War II.

During his time in the minors, Fox helped develop, among others, a young, strapping first baseman named Willie McCovey.

It wasn't until the final game of the season that the Giants clinched the Division title on Marichal's 5-1 gem over the San Diego Padres.

The Giants salivated at the chance to face the Pittsburgh Pirates in the best-of-five 1971 National League Championship Series.

The Giants jumped out of the gate full-steam ahead in the series opener, beating the Pirates, 5–4, in front of 40,977 fans at Candlestick Park.

On June 27, 1974, after compiling a record of 348–327 (.516), Fox was replaced as manager by former stalwart Giants catcher Wes Westrum.

[3] In 1976, he joined the front office of the Montreal Expos as a special assignment scout and served as the club's "emergency" manager when Karl Kuehl was fired on September 4.

After winning only 12 of 34 games to close out the season, Fox was named as the general manager and was later succeeded on the field by Dick Williams.

Fox served in other various capacities, from general manager to scout, with the Expos, Cubs, New York Yankees and Houston Astros.