...is Tony is a former Major Leaguer and now he is a housekeeper? Why didn't Tony Micelli just take a job as a coach of a baseball team somewhere. In one episode, it said he played two years for the Cardinals. There are some managers in the baseball ranks that never played above minor league ball.
And another thing, he may have played in the Majors awhile back, but wouldn't he have more money than what he had in the show?
From what I understand watching the show, he left that life to care for his daughter when his wife passed away.
shareBack in the 80's the lowest paid baseball players didn't make more than 50 or 60k a season. Even if he had 2 years in baseball and saved every penny, it would be gone after a few more years.
I think the last season he did coach a college baseball team. I don't remember how the show ended, but I think he broke up with Angela to coach.
It wasn't to coach. He was a professor at a college in Iowa. He and Angela were going to get married, but they broke it off because she didn't want to live there and he didn't want to leave. BUT, the final scene of the series is exactly the same as the first scene of the series. Angela is in a robe and towel and the doorbell rings. She answers it and Tony is there and says "I hear you're looking for a housekeeper." She gives him the 'job'.
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shareTony wanted Sam to be brought up like a normal child and that's why the housekeeping position in Connecticut seemed idea. The suburbs of Connecticut seemed a much safer place to raise Sam in Tony's mind, as opposed to the streets of Brooklyn. As for his becoming a coach, it's possible that after the injury, Tony didn't want anything to do with baseball. Maybe coaching might have been too painful for him, or maybe with only two years as a player, he might have not been thought experienced enough to be a coach.
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sports didnt always pay as much as now
i dont think thay ever sead he was a good player
just on the team
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Not to mention the fact that Tony played with the Cardinals in the 70s...and had to leave pretty early due to injury. THEN, his wife died...and he ends up having to raise Sam alone...Had hadn't been a baseball player long when he had to give it up so he would not have saved up enough money. We don't know how Sam's mom died but if illness was involved that could've also taken up the money he DID have.
“Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with” –Brian to Tracy in Mahogany
If Tony got a job as a professional baseball coach it would involve a lot of travel. Who would have taken care of Sam?
Tony's baseball career was brief. But he still should have qualified for pension. And if he was married to Samantha's mom he should have received insurance money when she passed away.
You have to play for a certain amount of time to qualify for the pension, and you need to have insurance before you can get insurance money.
shareYou are correct on both counts.
Major League Baseball players have a very generous pension. They start qualifying for it after playing one game in the big leagues. I am not joking. I don't know what the requirements were for pension in the '70s when Tony would have played.
Life insurance was provided by every full time employer I ever had. It wasn't much coverage, but they also did provide an easy opportunity to increase coverage with your own funds.
Tony got a job as a college professor in Iowa? I didn't know Tony went to college.
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