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I agree with nearly everyone here that:
1. having fictional managers and GMs wrecks the mythological experience of playing a historical league (even a random debut one).
2. that having historical managers with something like their real-life tendencies and experience would be great.
Like crawdad5000, when admirable players retire (say, Jackie Robinson, or Honus Wagner) I often turn them into coaches and will hire one as my manager and another as my bench coach. But for some of the reasons stated, I usually now just play with coaching turned off, since it ends up being a long slog through fictional names to hire people every couple of seasons.
Also, I remember that in version 16 I think it was, it was possible to be the GM and actually manage the team day to day, but to have in any case a largely symbolic manager. Now, the only way to have a manager is to be GM only - since 17 or 18, I forget. That brings all the problems stated above.
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