--- title: Jennie Finch: First Female to Manage a Baseball Team description: Former Olympic softball player Jennie Finch is about to become the first woman to manage a pro baseball team. canonical: https://time.com/4349755/the-first-woman-to-manage-a-baseball-team-is-only-doing-it-for-1-day/ author: Robin Hilmantel article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-26T20:57:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:36.068Z og:title: The 'First Woman to Manage A Baseball Team' Is Only Doing It For 1 Day og:description: Come on, guys! og:url: https://time.com/4349755/the-first-woman-to-manage-a-baseball-team-is-only-doing-it-for-1-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta05e35e1018ee889/698895380b72e351b76e995b/jennie-finch-baseball-manager-bridgeport.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2727 og:image:height: 1534 og:image:alt: 2015 MLB All-Star Legends And Celebrity Softball Game og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The 'First Woman to Manage A Baseball Team' Is Only Doing It For 1 Day twitter:description: Come on, guys! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta05e35e1018ee889/698895380b72e351b76e995b/jennie-finch-baseball-manager-bridgeport.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The 'First Woman to Manage A Baseball Team' Is Only Doing It For 1 Day > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images) CINCINNATI, OH - JULY 12: Jennie Finch looks on during the 2015 MLB All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game at Great American Ball Park on July 12, 2015 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Photo by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images) Mark Cunningham—Getty Images by [Robin Hilmantel](https://time.com/author/robin-hilmantel/) ## Robin Hilmantel May 26, 2016 8:57 PM UTC The good news? Former Olympic softball player Jennie Finch is about to become the first woman to manage a pro baseball team. The bad news? Her reign will be short-lived: She’s only managing the Bridgeport, Connecticut, Bluefish for one day. On Sunday, Finch will guest manage the minor league team, throw the ceremonial first pitch of the game and attend a pre-game meet-and-greet with fans, [according to CBS Sports](http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/jennie-finch-set-to-make-history-as-the-first-woman-to-manage-a-pro-baseball-team). “We are really excited to have Jennie come out and manage the team,” Bluefish general manager Jamie Toole [said in a statement](http://bridgeportbluefish.com/news/?article%5Fid=1640). “She is an incredible athlete and a wonderful person, and we hope our fans will enjoy seeing her in a Bluefish uniform for the day.” Apparently, he’s not excited enough to hire Finch permanently, though… Other women have less fleetingly broken into the world of coaching and managing professional sports, such as Spurs assistant coach [Becky Hammon](http://time.com/3082959/becky-hammon-nba-coach/) and Buffalo Bills quality control-special teams coach [Kathryn Smith](http://time.com/4188229/bills-kathryn-smith-nfl/). While it’s great to see Finch make headlines—three cheers for progress!—let’s see some more women move into more male-dominated sports, for more than a day! ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4349755/the-first-woman-to-manage-a-baseball-team-is-only-doing-it-for-1-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4349755/the-first-woman-to-manage-a-baseball-team-is-only-doing-it-for-1-day/"},"headline":"The 'First Woman to Manage A Baseball Team' Is Only Doing It For 1 Day","datePublished":"2016-05-26T20:57:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:36.068Z","description":"Come on, guys!","url":"https://time.com/4349755/the-first-woman-to-manage-a-baseball-team-is-only-doing-it-for-1-day/","keywords":["motto","Baseball","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta05e35e1018ee889/698895380b72e351b76e995b/jennie-finch-baseball-manager-bridgeport.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Robin Hilmantel","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/robin-hilmantel/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta05e35e1018ee889/698895380b72e351b76e995b/jennie-finch-baseball-manager-bridgeport.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2015 MLB All-Star Legends And Celebrity Softball Game","caption":"2015 MLB All-Star Legends And Celebrity Softball Game","creditText":"Mark Cunningham—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4349755/the-first-woman-to-manage-a-baseball-team-is-only-doing-it-for-1-day/","name":"The 'First Woman to Manage A Baseball Team' Is Only Doing It For 1 Day"}}]}] ```