If the baseball manager wears a baseball uniform, why cant he be sent to the field to play?
2006-11-27 04:40:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
The manager wears a uniform because he is the leader of the team. And all members of the team must wear the uniform. The manager would most likely not want to play, as they are usually much older and out of their prime physical condition.
Also, the manager is technically not on the teams roster of players, so he couldn't play if he wanted to.
2006-11-27 04:45:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Managers cannot play because they are not on the 25 man active roster. If a manager wanted to play, they could make themselves part of that 25 man roster, and then ba able to play.
Way back when the MLB started, many managers were also players, therefore they wore the uniform. Since then, it has been tradition to keep the uniform for managers.
There is no such rule that requires anyone who enters the field to be wearing a uniform. (athletic trainers and some batboys, such as the cubs bat boys, do not wear unforms)
2006-11-27 08:49:58 · answer #2 · answered by Joey L 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There have been player-managers in the past - I think Pete Rose with the Reds in the mid-1980s was the last one. Managers wearing uniforms is actually a legacy of the early days of baseball, when the manager was usually a player. The rules used to state (I'm not sure if they still do) that you had to be in uniform to go out onto the field, so managers and coaches thus wore uniforms.
2006-11-27 04:58:11 · answer #3 · answered by JerH1 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Baseball managers in this day and age are probably too old to go out and compete with the younger and more athletic players. Managers are not on any roster of players (25-player roster or 40-man roster). In the old days they use to have players that would manage the game. They stopped using player managers, because the game took a lot out of the players and managing made them even more tired.
2006-11-27 08:01:41 · answer #4 · answered by nickforstmann 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Each team is limited to a 25 man roster and if the manager could hack it, he could be on that roster. But probably it is because they're too dern old. Can you imagine Bobby Cox hobbling out to play center field or Joe Torre running the bases (goodness, Joe must be in his 60s). At that level, they're teachers and managers.
2006-11-27 04:50:14 · answer #5 · answered by iwasnotanazipolka 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
MLB regulations state that coaches and executives could be in uniform in the event that they choose to bypass on the sector for the period of the recreation, and yet another regulations states that uniforms could have a quantity on the back. there is not any particular requirement that the government or coaches could be in uniform, yet while they don't seem to be (and there have been some circumstances of managers who did not positioned on them, maximum rather Connie Mack), then they at the instant are allowed to bypass away the dugout.
2016-10-13 05:15:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it has been done before....Joe Torre (believe it or not) was a player/manager with the St. Louis Cardinals near the end of his playing career
2006-11-27 07:11:52 · answer #7 · answered by Islander Fan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
MOST ARE TO OLD. I THINK PETE ROSE WAS THE LAST PLAYER MANAGER. THE LAST MANAGER NOT TO BE IN
UNIFORM WAS CONNIE MACK OF THE PHILADELPHIA ( NOW
OAKLAND) ATHLETICS. HE ALSO OWNED THE TEAM.
2006-11-28 06:09:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He has to be part of the official roster. BTW they used to play in John McGraw's era (NY Giants).
2006-11-28 05:01:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
MOST OF THE MANAGERS ARE TO OLD
2006-11-27 05:27:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋