Editing Rick Ferrell (section)

==Post-playing career and legacy==
[[File:Rick Ferrell plaque.jpg|thumb|upright|right|110px|Plaque of Rick Ferrell at the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame]]]]
In an 18-year career, Ferrell played in 1,884&nbsp;games, accumulating 1,692&nbsp;hits in 6,028&nbsp;at bats for a .281&nbsp;career batting average along with 28&nbsp;home runs, 734&nbsp;runs batted in and an impressive on-base percentage of .378.<ref name="Rick Ferrell statistics"/> He hit over .300&nbsp;four times during his career, and his on-base percentage is eighth all-time among the 50&nbsp;catchers with 3,000&nbsp;at bats.<ref name="The Baseball Biography Project: Rick Ferrell"/> A patient hitter, Ferrell logged just 277&nbsp;strikeouts during his career, along with 931&nbsp;[[base on balls|bases on balls]].<ref name="Rick Ferrell statistics"/> He ended his career with a .984&nbsp;fielding percentage.<ref name="Rick Ferrell statistics"/> An eight-time All-Star with a strong throwing arm, he led American League catchers four times in baserunners caught stealing, and twice in assists and putouts.<ref name="Rick Ferrell statistics"/> Ferrell retired having caught 1,806&nbsp;games, an American League record that stood until [[Carlton Fisk]] surpassed it in 1988.<ref name="The Baseball Biography Project: Rick Ferrell"/> He currently ranks 12th all-time in games played as a catcher.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/Gm_c_career.shtml|title=Career Leaders & Records for Def. Games as Catcher|work=baseball-reference.com|access-date=May 26, 2014}}</ref>

Ferrell continued as a coach for the Senators in [[1948 Washington Senators season|1948]] and [[1949 Washington Senators season|1949]]. He then joined the Detroit Tigers as a coach from [[1950 Detroit Tigers season|1950]] to [[1954 Detroit Tigers season|1954]] before retiring from the field altogether.<ref name="The Baseball Biography Project: Rick Ferrell"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Coach Ferrell|agency=Associated Press|work=[[Ottawa Citizen]]|page=17|date=December 27, 1949|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TN4wAAAAIBAJ&pg=2358,1273614&dq=rick+ferrell&hl=en}}</ref> Afterwards, he served as a [[Scout (sport)|scout]] then as the scouting director for the Tigers before becoming the [[General manager (baseball)|general manager]] and vice president in [[1959 Detroit Tigers season|1959]].<ref name="The Baseball Biography Project: Rick Ferrell"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Ferrell Confirmed as G.M.|agency=Associated Press|work=[[The Windsor Daily Star]]|page=1|date=April 10, 1959|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lSc_AAAAIBAJ&pg=6362,3366830&dq=rick+ferrell&hl=en}}</ref> He held the position for four years, with veteran executive [[Bill DeWitt]] taking the leading role in baseball operations from late {{mlby|1959}} through the {{mlby|1960}} season as club president, before turning the general manager role over to [[Jim Campbell (baseball executive)|Jim Campbell]] at the close of the {{mlby|1962}} campaign. Ferrell remained with the team as a senior member of its front office. During his tenure as a Tigers executive, the team won two [[World Series]] championships, in [[1968 World Series|1968]] and in [[1984 World Series|1984]], and won two [[American League East|American League Eastern Division]] titles in [[1972 Detroit Tigers season|1972]] and in [[1987 Detroit Tigers season|1987]].<ref name="The Baseball Biography Project: Rick Ferrell"/>

In his 1985 book, ''[[The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract]]'', baseball historian [[Bill James]] ranked Ferrell as the third best catcher in the American League during his career, behind only Mickey Cochrane and Bill Dickey.<ref name="The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract">{{cite book|author=James, Bill|title=[[The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract]]|publisher=Free Press|location=New York|year=2001|page=[https://archive.org/details/newbilljameshist00jame/page/408 408]|isbn=0-684-80697-5}}</ref> Ferrell was elected by the [[Veterans Committee]], along with [[Pee Wee Reese]], to the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame]] in [[Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1984|1984]].<ref name="Rick Ferrell at The Baseball Hall of Fame">{{cite web|url=http://baseballhall.org/hof/ferrell-rick|title=Rick Ferrell at The Baseball Hall of Fame|publisher=National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|work=baseballhall.org|access-date=May 26, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Pee Wee Reese, Rick Ferrell make it to Baseball's Hall of Fame, finally|agency=Associated Press|work=[[Deseret News]]|page=1|date=March 5, 1984|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=48UoAAAAIBAJ&pg=1513,2054352&dq=rick+ferrell&hl=en}}</ref> He retired in {{mlby|1992}} at the age of 87 after 42&nbsp;years with the Tigers organization.<ref name="The Baseball Biography Project: Rick Ferrell"/>

Ferrell was married to Ruth Virginia Wilson from 1941 until her death in 1968.<ref name="The Baseball Biography Project: Rick Ferrell"/> Together they had four children, two sons and two daughters.<ref name="Rick Ferrell Obit">{{cite news|last1=Corio|first1=Ray|title=Rick Ferrell, Hall of Famer, 89, Catching Half of Brothers' Pair|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/29/obituaries/rick-ferrell-hall-of-famer-89-catching-half-of-brothers-pair.html|access-date=October 18, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=July 29, 1995}}</ref> His family first lived in Greensboro, then later in [[Grosse Pointe, Michigan]].<ref name="The Baseball Biography Project: Rick Ferrell"/> He lived in [[Troy, Michigan]], for the remaining 18 years of his life, until he was admitted into a nursing home in [[Bloomfield Hills, Michigan]].<ref name="Rick Ferrell Obit"/> It was here that he died of [[Cardiac dysrhythmia|arrhythmia]] on July 27, 1995, and is interred at New Garden Cemetery in Greensboro, North Carolina.<ref name="Rick Ferrell statistics"/><ref name="Rick Ferrell Obit"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Rick Ferrell, last of first All-Stars, served Tigers from 1950–92|agency=Associated Press|work=[[Argus-Press]]|page=5|date=July 28, 1995|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oUAiAAAAIBAJ&pg=2969,2166374&dq=rick+ferrell&hl=en}}</ref>