As a player In the majors, Flowers played in over 100 games only once: in , for the Robins. He also had his finest offensive season for Brooklyn during the lively-ball season, when Flowers
batted .320 and reached career highs in
doubles (18) and
runs batted in (50) in only 86 games played. During his two terms with the Cardinals he was a member of two world championship teams, in
1926 and
1931, collecting one
hit and one
base on balls in 15
World Series plate appearances. During his regular-season big-league career, Flowers batted .256; his 433 hits included 75 doubles, 18
triples and 16 home runs.
As a manager, coach, executive and scout After his professional playing career ended in 1936, Flowers returned to the
Eastern Shore of Maryland and turned to managing. In his first season, 1937, he won
The Sporting News'
Minor League Manager of the Year Award. His
Salisbury Indians won the Class D
Eastern Shore League regular-season
pennant with a 59–37
win–loss record, then prevailed over the
Centreville Colts in the league playoffs for the undisputed league championship. Salisbury roared off to a 21–5 record during the season's early weeks, but when an ineligible player was discovered on the Indians' roster, the team was forced to
forfeit all 21 wins. Undeterred, Flowers' club then won 59 of its last 70 games without the banned player to finish 3 games ahead of the second-place
Easton Browns. Had the 21 early-season wins not been forfeited, Salisbury would have compiled a
winning percentage of .833, good for 135 wins during a 162-game season. After three seasons in the Eastern Shore League, Flowers returned to the majors to coach under two former Cardinal teammates:
Frankie Frisch with the
Pittsburgh Pirates (1940–45) and
Billy Southworth with the
Boston Braves (1946). Flowers then was
general manager of the Braves' top
farm system affiliate, the
Milwaukee Brewers of the
American Association, from 1947 to 1950 and a
Cleveland Indians coach in 1951–52. He later
scouted for the
Baltimore Orioles. He suffered a fatal
heart attack at age 60 in
Clearwater, Florida. Jake Flowers is a member of the Washington College and Eastern Shore Baseball Foundation halls of fame. ==See also==