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warshawlawHug died prematurely.
Also, it is not fair to claim that Huggins "inherited" a great teamn. Every manager, with rare exceptions, "inherits" his team. The general manager has the bigger role in deciding who is going to be on the team, and before free agency, the quality of the farm and scouting network had even more to do with it by defining the talent pool for the team. Casey Stengel "inherited" a great team that George Weiss put together; Ralph Houk inherited it from Casey. Gil Hodges "inherited" a team nucleus with the Mets. The Brooklyn Dodgers managers were the beneficiaries of MacPhail's and Rickey's efforts assembling the Dodgers. Ed Barrow assembled the great teams that Joe McCarthy had with the Yankees and the Yankees and Cards had the finest farm systems in the majors, which is why McCarthy couldn't win when he went to the Red Sox; not the same front office and development talent.