Editing Joe Gordon (section)

==Later years==
[[File:Joe Gordon 1961.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Gordon as manager of the [[Kansas City Athletics]] in 1961.]]
Gordon next became a player-manager with the [[Pacific Coast League]]'s (PCL) [[Sacramento Solons]] in 1951–52.  Showing he still had something in the tank, Gordon hit .299 with 43 home runs and 136 RBI in 148 games in 1951, but tailed off badly in 1952, hitting only .246 with just 16 home runs – his fewest since his World War II-shortened 1946 season.<ref name=brm/> His teams also performed poorly under his direction, winning just over 40% of their games in those two years.<ref name=brm/> Gordon then worked as a [[scout (sport)|scout]] with the Tigers from 1953 to 1955, and as a [[coach (baseball)|coach]] during the early months of the 1956 season. In mid-year he returned to the PCL to manage the 1956–57 [[San Francisco Seals (PCL)|San Francisco Seals]], winning a pennant in 1957.

He then went on to manage for four different MLB teams. Gordon began his major league managing career with the Indians in 1958, but had difficult relations with general manager [[Frank Lane]], who publicly questioned his decisions.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}} After Gordon announced late in 1959, with Cleveland in second place, that he would not return the next season, Lane fired him four days later. However Lane recanted and apologized after negotiations with [[Leo Durocher]] broke down and Gordon was rehired.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}} But in the middle of the {{Baseball year|1960}} season, he was involved in a rare trade between managers, when the Indians traded him to the Tigers for their skipper [[Jimmy Dykes]]. After the season, Gordon was hired by the [[Kansas City Athletics]] for 1961. However, owner [[Charlie Finley]] fired him on June 19, replacing him with [[Hank Bauer]],<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/06/20/archives/finley-and-lane-agree-on-change-athletics-officials-give-job-to.html | title=FINLEY AND LANE AGREE ON CHANGE; Athletics' Officials Give Job to Bauer, 38, Ex-Yankee --Gordon to be Paid in Full | newspaper=The New York Times | date=20 June 1961 }}</ref> and Gordon became a scout and minor league instructor for the [[Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim|Los Angeles / California Angels]] from 1961 to 1968. In 1969, he had the distinction of managing his second team in [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]], this time with the expansion [[Kansas City Royals|Royals]], but lasted only one season with the club before resigning at the end of his one-year contract. Gordon later went into real estate and died of a heart attack at age 63 in [[Sacramento, California]].