why do most professional coaches wear suits or casuals wear, but in baseball they wear uniforms?

Question

it's not like they are playing, they just sit the bench!

Answer 1

It's probably more of a throwback to the early days of baseball when most managers were active players as well. Major league baseball does not require the manager to wear a uniform, but if he should choose not to, he would not be allowed on the playing field under any circumstances. As recently as 1950, there were managers in baseball who wore a suit and tie in the dugout .(Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics and Burt Shotton of the Brooklyn Dodgers)
Also, baseball managers and coaches are actually on the field before the games, hitting fly balls, pitching batting practice, etc. Not many basketball coaches are out on the court doing layups, and not many NFL coaches are out throwing passes or doing calisthenics before the game.
Although I'm a bit of a baseball traditionalist, I think it's rather silly too require a coach (other then perhaps the base coaches) to wear a full uniform. This is especially apparent to me after seeing MLB officials go into the dugout during a game to make sure Terry Francona had his jersey on underneath his pullover. Perhaps there should be guidelines - official jackets or shirts, but to expect a 65 year old man with a beer gut to wear a baseball uniform is too me just plain silly.

Answer 2

There is an obscure rule in baseball that says any member of a team - players, coaches, managers, ball boys, etc. - must be in full uniform to step foot on the field. The coaches and managers could choose to wear a suit and tie if they so wished, but they would have to stay in the dugout. They couldn't come out to talk with the pitcher or make a pitching change. Plus, there is some history and tradition going back to the days when player/managers were commonplace.

Answer 3

The original reason managers wore the uniform was that back in the "old days" all managers were also players. so a guy would play third base or any other position and manage the team during his playing career. When he retires from playing if he's still the manager he keeps wearing his old uniform out of habit.
There are no more player-managers (the last one was Pete Rose) but by now it's a tradition.
Tradition's are hard to change

Answer 4

It is a tradition more than anything else and there is no rule in place that requires it. When baseball first started the managers were also players and therefore in uniform. The player/manager continued to wear his uniform even after he was too old to play. Later on when managers were not players they carried on the tradition of everyone on the field in uniform. Now it ask you, how would you like to see a manager in a shirt and tie walk out to the pitchers mound to change pitchers? It is all about tradition!!

Answer 5

Tradition is part of it, going back to the days of player-managers, but also Major League Baseball has a rule that says no team manager, coach or player can step on the field unless they are in full uniform. The coaches don't have to wear them, but they wouldn't be able to go out to the mound to talk with the pitchers, go onto the filed to argue with an umpire or make a lineup change. I'm too young to have seen this personally, but I've heard that in his later years Connie Mack used to manage in a suit and tie.

Answer 6

Tradition, it used to be the coaches played and we still had some up to pete rose (he managed and played), technicly the manager could insert himself into the line up at any time.

Answer 7

Because in the old days there were players/managers. I think the last one was Pete Rose. That is why they wore a uniform and it does look nice to see all looking alike.

Answer 8

Probably because in baseball the manager and coaches often participate in practice and warm-ups

Answer 9

So we could make fun of Tommy Lasorda. It wouldn't have been as funny, if he was wearing a suit.

Answer 10

tradition