 On defense, he made only five errors and had a fielding percentage of .983.Riddle spent all or parts of three seasons as a player-manager in minor league baseball (1942–44), and later worked for 10 years as a coach in the National League, for the Pirates (1948–50), St. Louis Cardinals (1952–55), Milwaukee Braves (1956–57), Cincinnati Redlegs (1958) and Philadelphia Phillies (1959).He won a World Series championship as the first base coach of the Braves in 1957.