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Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 10, 2019, 6:55 PM
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Football coaches don’t wear uniforms. Neither do basketball coaches. It’s not like they are going to play or something. What is the need for them to wear uniforms? Just wondering.
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Re: Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 10, 2019, 7:00 PM
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Great question. Now I’m wondering too.
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Re: Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 10, 2019, 7:02 PM
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better question is why do basketball coaches wear suits??
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Re: Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 10, 2019, 7:03 PM
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I suspect it's just tradition, and why or how it started, nobody knows. I agree with you that it looks ridiculous, all these old men in uniform, and I can't think of another sport where the coaches/managers wear the same as the players.
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I actually think hockey coaches look the most ridiculous
Apr 10, 2019, 7:05 PM
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They wear suits and stand behind the bench. Look completely out of place, like a guy who just happened to wander in there.
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Re: Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 10, 2019, 7:04 PM
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Many coaches and managers were actually just captains of the teams and often were players.
Plus wouldn’t a business suit look funny waving a runner through third?
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Re: Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 10, 2019, 7:05 PM
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Well it would distract from the game if they showed up naked!?!?
Go Tigers!!!
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Re: Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 10, 2019, 7:17 PM
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And Tripod(windmill) Lebowsky waves the runner home from third...
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My dad always gripes about this
Apr 10, 2019, 7:17 PM
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Especially for MLB managers
Very unflattering look for a lot of those guys
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Re: My dad always gripes about this
Apr 10, 2019, 7:20 PM
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Bobby Cox in a suit; that would look ridiculous
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Wouldn't have to be a suit***
Apr 10, 2019, 7:33 PM
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Re: Wouldn't have to be a suit***
Apr 10, 2019, 7:39 PM
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I like to picture Bobby in those old puffy starter jackets
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Re: What about a sweatshirt and khakis?
Apr 10, 2019, 9:06 PM
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Only if you coach at Michigan. Dabo too on occasion.
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It's tradition - way back when the owners..........
Apr 10, 2019, 7:23 PM
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were also the general managers as there wasn't the structure to a baseball organization there is today. It's just stuck over the years and become tradition.
Kind of like head football coaches always used to wear suits. Now you hardly ever see a head football coach wearing a suit.
It's mixed in basketball - some wear suits and some don't.
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Re: Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 10, 2019, 7:32 PM
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According to John Thorn, the official historian of Major League Baseball since 2011, 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 decides 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 player's uniform. By the early to mid 20th century, wearing the uniform was the norm for managers, with a few notable exceptions. The Philadelphia Athletics’s Connie Mack and the Brooklyn Dodgers’s 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.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/30076/why-do-baseball-managers-wear-uniforms
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Re: Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 10, 2019, 9:09 PM
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Very informative! Thanks
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It’s gotten out of hand. Even politicians wear baseball uniforms.
Apr 10, 2019, 7:34 PM
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Why is that man's butt on the front? Looks 'shopped to me***
Apr 10, 2019, 7:36 PM
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Snoddy must have beamed him***
Apr 10, 2019, 8:59 PM
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Re: It’s gotten out of hand. Even politicians wear baseball uniforms.
Apr 10, 2019, 10:08 PM
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and the scary part is most of these guys appear to be better baseball players than they are politicians......which means they really really suck at the jobs they actually get paid for.....Go Tigers!!!!’
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Probably because they're on the field with the team
Apr 10, 2019, 9:23 PM
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at times.
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come watch pregame warmups and you would know that
Apr 10, 2019, 9:33 PM
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the coaches pitch batting practice and hit infield grounders and outfield flies.
I thought everybody knew that, but evidently not.
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Re: come watch pregame warmups and you would know that
Apr 10, 2019, 9:41 PM
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Don’t have to we’re a little uniform to do that. I did that with my kids in jeans and a t-shirt.
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even the old fat uncoordinated ones do
Apr 10, 2019, 9:55 PM
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Why do basketball coaches (typically) wear suits?..
Apr 10, 2019, 9:36 PM
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I've often wondered.
There was a time when football coaches wore suits too. As best as I can recall, Al Golden was the last guy to do that (learned from Joe Paterno).
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Re: Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 10, 2019, 10:04 PM
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Because a long time ago the coach was also a player on their teams and decided to keep their uniforms even when they quit playing and just became the coach.......Go Tigers!!!
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Good call.***
Apr 11, 2019, 7:34 AM
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Re: Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 10, 2019, 10:22 PM
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Tradition. In the early years of the game the "manager" was usually a player.
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Re: Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 10, 2019, 10:29 PM
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Because it’s baseball
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LOL! I just imagined a third base coach wearing a
Apr 11, 2019, 7:36 AM
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football uniform
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Re: Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 10, 2019, 11:33 PM
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Football coaches don’t wear uniforms. Neither do basketball coaches. It’s not like they are going to play or something. What is the need for them to wear uniforms? Just wondering.
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Practical: Most baseball coaches are active in pre-game warmups: batting and infield practice
Historical Many coaches were also on the active team roster. This was especially true in semi-pro and minor leagues where most players were groomed.
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Re: Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 11, 2019, 8:23 AM
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As Tevye said "I don know it's Tradition."
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Re: Why do baseball coaches wear uniforms?..
Apr 11, 2019, 8:29 AM
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i think it is a very old tradition based on the idea that the coach could conceivably still be a player who just happened to have been picked to lead the team, so he could possibly still come into the game to play at some point. I just seem to remember something like that from the Ken Burns documentary.
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