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Wife asked me why baseball managers wear outfits
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:23 pm
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:23 pm
Is there a reason for this? I quit wearing costumes and outfits a long time ago
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:24 pm to caill430
quote:you must have a boring sex life
I quit wearing costumes and outfits a long time ago
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:24 pm to caill430
quote:
Wife asked me why baseball managers wear outfits
Know how I know you're gay?
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:26 pm to caill430
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Is there a reason for this? I quit wearing costumes and outfits a long time ago
you high?
these two thoughts are completely unrelated
and the term is uniform you fairy
This post was edited on 9/30/14 at 7:26 pm
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:26 pm to caill430
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Wife asked me why baseball managers wear outfits
And for that matter, why doesn't the man carry his club with him when he runs to primary base-spot?
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:27 pm to caill430
Yes. Managers almost always played in the game in the early years of the sport.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:27 pm to caill430
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This post was edited on 3/8/21 at 2:38 pm
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:28 pm to caill430
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According to John Thorn, the official historian of Major League Baseball, it goes back to the earliest days of the game.
Back then, the person known as the manager was the business manager, the guy who kept the books in order and the road trips on schedule. Meanwhile, the guy we call the manager today, the one who arranges the roster and decided when to pull a pitcher, was known as the captain. In addition to managing the team on the field, he was usually also on the team as a player. For many years, the “manager” wore a player’s uniform simply because he was a player. There were also a few captains who didn’t play for the team and stuck to making decisions in the dugout, and they usually wore suits.
With the passing of time, it became less common for the captain to play, and on most teams they took on strictly managerial roles. Instead of suits proliferating throughout America’s dugouts, though, non-playing captains largely hung on to the tradition of wearing a players’ uniform. By the early to mid 20th century, wearing the uniform was the norm for managers, with a few notable exceptions. The Philadelphia Athletics’ Connie Mack and the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Burt Shotton continued to wear suits and ties to games long after it fell out of favor (though Shotton sometimes liked to layer a team jacket on top of his street clothes). Once those two retired, it’s been uniforms as far as the eye can see.
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Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:29 pm to caill430
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outfits
you talking about their uniform?...
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:29 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
The last player manager I can recall was Pete Rose, and him betting on and against the Reds while he was managing is what got him his lifetime ban.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:29 pm to caill430
I've also wondered the same thing. It is so strange how basketball coaches wear suits, baseball coaches wear uniforms, and football coaches wear khakis and polos or pullovers or vests or whatever the hell they want.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:29 pm to caill430
Tradition. Managers used to play, so they would dress out.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:29 pm to brass2mouth
Wife asked about the outfit not me. I never thought about it before, but baseball has the only managers that are still wearing a uniform. Does the league require it
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:30 pm to glassman
This is common sense. How do grown men not know this?
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:32 pm to caill430
quote:I don't believe you
Wife asked me
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:33 pm to caill430
OP, you're a complete fig. You have no wife, you don't have to pretend.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 7:33 pm to lsu31always
Not sure, but old dudes in uniforms look pretty stupid.
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