The 2005 campaign was Coxs 14th with 90 or more wins, placing him third all-time in 90-win seasons behind Hall of Famer skippers John McGraw (16) and Joe McCarthy (15). Cox became the first manager to be voted the Manager of the Year by the Baseball Writers Association of America in consecutive seasons (his third NL honor and fourth overall), and was also named Manager of the Year by Sporting News, Baseball America and Sports Weekly. The Sporting News, in a poll of his peers, honored Cox as the NLs top skipper for the fourth straight season, marking the seventh time he received the honor with the Braves and the eighth time overall. No other manager has won the Sporting News award more than three times since the magazine started the balloting in 1936.

Coxs 2,092 wins rank seventh all-time and include a franchise-best 1,737 victories with the Braves and 355 with the Toronto Blue Jays. Cox owns a career record of 2,092-1,603 and his .566 career winning percentage ranks third all-time. The Braves have won more games (1,431) in the past 15 seasons than any other team in baseball. Coxs 14 division crowns have led to five pennants (1991, 1992, 1995, 1996 and 1999) and one World Championship (1995).

In 2004, Cox was voted the NL Manager of the Year by the BBWAA, as well as Sporting News, Baseball America and Sports Weekly. Despite the offseason departures of such players as Gary Sheffield, Javy Lopez, Vinny Castilla and Greg Maddux, and prolonged injuries to such stars as Horacio Ramirez and Marcus Giles, Cox proved the prognosticators wrong and led the club to a 96-66 record, winning the NL East by 10 games. On September 29, 2004, in the seasons final home game, Cox earned his 2,000th career victory with a 6-4 decision over the New York Mets. He became just the ninth skipper in big-league history to reach that lofty milestone.

The Sporting News named Cox the NL manager of the year in 2003 as he moved past Casey Stengel into ninth place on the all-time managerial win list. He joined the Yankees Joe McCarthy as the only managers in major league history to guide their teams to 100 or more wins in a season six times. The Braves, with their 101-61 record, utilized a record-setting offense and quality pitching, finishing 10 games ahead of the Florida Marlins in the NL East. With the Braves 101st win on the last day of the 2003 season, a 5-2 victory at Philadelphia, Cox reached 1,906 career victories,

Cox earned the Sporting News award for the fifth time in 2002, when the Braves won their 12th consecutive division title despite a mostly unheralded bullpen and injuries to key personnel. Cox brought the city of Atlanta its first major professional sports world championship in 1995 when the Braves defeated the Cleveland Indians, four games to two, in the World Series. The victory also marked the first time a franchise had won a World Series in three different cities.

In 1993, the Braves won a then franchise-record 104 games and became the first National League West team to win three straight division titles. The Braves 400 Club honored Cox with its Mr. Baseball Award that season. The Braves performance in 1991, when they went from worst-to-first and participated in one of the most dramatic World Series in history, earned Cox several postseason honors. Among others, the Associated Press named him Major League Manager of the Year. Cox became the first manager to earn that honor in both leagues, having also won it while with the Blue Jays in 1985.

Cox managed the Braves from 1978 to 81, compiling a 266-323 record and laying the groundwork for the clubs National League West title in 1982. He began a four-year tenure as Torontos manager in 1982, lifting a habitual last-place team to within one game of attaining a World Series berth in 1985. In 1982, Cox led the Blue Jays to a 78-84 mark, the best record in their six-year existence. Toronto improved to 89-73 each of the next two seasons and then won the American League East crown by going 99-62 in 1985. For his efforts that year, Cox was named Major League Manager of the Year by the Baseball Writers of America, the Associated Press, as well as The Sporting News.

Cox returned to the Braves as General Manager in October of 1985 and oversaw a farm system which set the foundation for the teams recent success. He added the field managing responsibilities on June 22, 1990, then devoted all his time to those duties when the Braves named John Schuerholz General Manager in October of that year.

Cox spent five years in the Dodgers farm system before being selected by the Chicago Cubs in the November 1964 Minor League Draft. He was acquired by the Braves in a 1966 trade that sent outfielder Billy Cowan to the Cubs. After playing for Triple-A Richmond in 1967, he was traded to the New York Yankees and beat out Mike Ferraro, the Yankees outstanding spring training rookie, for the third base job in 1968. Cox made the Topps Rookie All-Star team in 1968, but lost his job to roommate Bobby Murcer in 1969.

Bad knees forced Cox to retire as a player at the age of 30. He was appointed manager of the Yankees Class-A Fort Lauderdale club in 1971. He won the Eastern League pennant and championship with West Haven in 1972 and placed second twice and third twice in four years at Syracuse, winning the International Leagues Governors Cup in 1976. He served as the Yankees first base coach in 1977. Cox was born May 21, 1941, in Tulsa, OK. He graduated from Selma (CA) High School in 1959 and attended Reedley (CA) Junior College. Cox, his wife Pam, and three daughters, Keisha, Kami and Skyla, live in Marietta. He has five other children: Debbie, Bobby Jr., Connie, Shelly and Randy.