As manager As coach Edwin Lee Mathews (October 13, 1931 – February 18, 2001) was an American professional baseball third baseman.

[1] He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 17 seasons for the Boston / Milwaukee / Atlanta Braves (1952–1966); Houston Astros (1967) and Detroit Tigers (1967–68).

[1] Inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1978,[2] he is the only player to have represented the Braves in the three cities they have called home.

He played 63 games that year for the Class D High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms, where he hit 17 home runs and earned a .363 batting average.

[7] After splitting 1951 between the Crackers and Triple-A Milwaukee Brewers, Mathews made the Braves' major league roster out of spring training in 1952.

In the World Series, Mathews hit a game-winning home run in the tenth inning of game four.

Mathews made the final out of the Series, a forceout of Gil McDougald on Moose Skowron's hard-hit grounder.

[citation needed] Pitcher Sal Maglie noticed, however, that Mathews had a tendency to chase "the low curve on the three-and-two pitch.

The Braves traded Mathews, Arnold Umbach, and a player to be named later to the Houston Astros for Dave Nicholson and Bob Bruce after the 1966 season.

After just 101 games in Houston, Mathews was traded again — this time from the Astros to the Detroit Tigers, who were in the midst of a heated pennant race with the Boston Red Sox.

The Braves were 47–57 under Lum Harris and in fourth place in the National League West Division when Mathews took command on August 7.

He was ultimately admitted to a hospital to investigate it, where doctors ruled out cancer, but he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, treated then returned to his work with the Oakland organization.

In 2020, The Athletic ranked Mathews at number 46 on its "Baseball 100" list, complied by sportswriter Joe Posnanski.

[21][22] Sportswriter Bob Wolf of the Milwaukee Journal indicated that Mathews' election to the Baseball Hall of Fame may have been delayed because of his cool relationship with the media.

[21] In February 2001, Mathews died from complications of pneumonia in La Jolla in San Diego, California, and was buried in Santa Barbara Cemetery.

Later that year during the baseball season, the Atlanta Braves honored Mathews with the placement of patches bearing his retired uniform number, 41, on their jerseys.