why is baseball the only sport that the manager/coach wears a uniform?

Answer 1

Tradition. When the game started, the manager would usually be the player who got the team together to play against another team.

It's in the rules because when they codified them it was what everybody was already doing.

Answer 2

You must be in uniform to go on the playing field. Baseball is the only sport in which managers and coaches can go on the field (such as the pitching coach going out to the mound). Do football coaches ever leave the sidelines? How about basketball coaches? Have you ever seen a hockey coach come out onto the ice?

Answer 3

Most of the time, a manager (the Field Manager, technically speaking) was a player on the team years ago. No one has done it since the '80s. I think it's time has passed, as most coaches and managers look like 10 pounds of potatoes in a five-pound bag when they wear a uniform.

Answer 4

The tradition started as most managers were also players at the turn of the century. When you look at other sports, the managers stay well away from the action, but still in baseball, the manager walks out to the mound, and argues with the umpire, where there's a lot of dirt.

Answer 5

Because baseball is the most tradition-rich sport in the world. In the old days (and even as recent as Pete Rose & the Cincinnati Reds in the late 80's), the Manager was a player as well. They set the lineup, coordinated team travel, etc.; but they also played with the rest of the team.

Answer 6

Because in any other sports the coach would look like a retard if they wore the uniform and baseball is a real dirty sport so their not going to wear a tux

Answer 7

Not necessarily true-during the Football World Cup (and of course here in the UK the Premiership Cup Final and the FA Cup Finals) the Manager, Coaches and players all turn up to the game wearing the same suits-suppose it counts as a uniform to a degree as it has to have the team crest on it somewhere? Just a thought....

Answer 8

I am not sure when MLB adopted the rule for all coaches. I seem to remember an old film clip of Connie Mack in a suit and tie in the Philadelphia A's dugout.
I do like the rule though. But only in baseball.
Could you imagine Rick Majerus, Frank Layden or Red Auerbach on the sidelines in basketball shorts?

Answer 9

Managers used to also be regular players at the same time back in the old days of baseball. Player-managers would wear their game uniforms and perform their duties. And it stuck.

Answer 10

Why do we need to answer this question a hundred times?

The answer is simple: The rules require any player, coach, or manager who wishes to step onto the field to wear a uniform. In no other sport does the coaching staff, including the manager (or head coach), step onto the field.

Answer 11

An interesting concept - probably because of the need for first and third base coaches. Being on the field, they are a part of the game. But historically managers started out in business suits then in the 1930's switched to uniforms. Another fascinating feature of the world's greatest game.