Kerry is more off base than usual. (No pun intended) Thanks for the info.
Digging out my husband's old Encylopedia Baseball, in 1963, Yost was a third base coach In D.C. when his old Senator's ex-teammate, Mickey Vernon was fired as manager.
After letting it be known he'd only do the job until a permanent manager was hired, the Senators traded Jimmy Piersall to the Mets for arthritic-knee'd slugger Gil Hodges, who was ready to call it a playing career and begin managing.
Yost went with Hodges when he left to return to the Mets as manager in 1968. A year later, they were World Champions!
Later on, Yost became third base coach in Boston, but his one game 9-3 loss to the WHITE Sox is recorded as TYING the shortest managerial stints of all time.
Incidentally, a doofus by the name of TED TURNER (Atlanta) made that same list on 5/11/77 with a 2-1 loss to Pittsburgh before NL President Chub Feeney ordered him out of the dugout and back into the stands with all the other drunks.