The USPBL has had a lot of manager/owners throughout our 46 years of existence.

No attempt has ever been made to list them. Until now.

 Having become league commish early in my USPBL career, I kept league documents. Among these are

Newsletters, Standings, Draft information and MANGER DIRECTORIES. With all those documents I've been

able to compile a list of all the USPBL Managers over the years. 

There are 120  total listed. Of these, 4 are "UNKNOWN" and 10 are "OPEN".   

Thus we have had 110 Managers with 106 named here.

MANAGER SEASONS

I coined the term MANAGER SEASONS. This is the number of Managers that were needed to cover all the 

teams for all the seasons. 

1980-1994    16 teams over 15 seasons required 240 manager seasons.

1995-2003    18 teams over 9 seasons required 162 manager seasons.

2004-2025    20 teams over 22 seasons required 440 manager seasons.

Human Beings account for all but 13 of the 840 manager seasons. Those were Open Teams.

Unknown Managers account for 7 manager seasons.

OPEN TEAMS

While the number of Open Teams seems lower than you would think, there are 3 explanations:

1) In recent years, I don't list managers that do not finish the season. They are removed from the directory.

When starting a season with an Open team, we do not carry over the prior team's name to avoid confusing it with a manned team, So Open teams are easily identified in the Directory. HOWEVER in the past, a

manager would leave at the start or during the season but remain in the directory and standings with the

same name as the prior season. Thus some managers prior to 2012  are getting credit for a year of service

when it may have been an open team for part or all of a season.

2) I don't have the Directories for 1981, 1982, 1985 and 1986. For some, if they appeared in 1980 but not

1983, or in 1984 but not 1987, I gave them credit for the missing seasons. In many cases I was able to use

other means such as the newsletters or standings to determine who was or was not on board. So there was

some guesswork involved for those seasons. 

3) There really aren't as many seasons with OPEN teams as you might think. Recently we went through

a spell of having 7 open teams since 2015. Yet from 1999-2014 there were none. Other than this recent drought and that brief period from 1997-1998, we had waiting lists and filled vacant teams quickly.

Open teams have not been a serious issue. It might just seem like it is. 

The chart on the right has 25 of the 110 managers on it. They account for 570 Manager Seasons out of

the 840 total. That's 68% from longtime managers alone. Known Open teams account for just 1.5%.

Even if a bunch of those managers listed pre-2012 were actually Open teams, the % is still very low.

A few explanations regarding this listing.

* I have this arranged by USPBL TEAM FRANCHISES. Then in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER for each

of the Franchises from the USPBL's inception in 1980 through 2025.

* There are 4 managers listed twice. As this list is by franchise, 4 served as managers of 2 different franchises. Chris Malitsky began with Team 7, left, then returned taking Team 9. Scott was the expansion manager for Team 17, left, then returned to run Team 5. Greg Smith had Team 12, left, then returned with

Team 8. Darin Payne managed Team 7, then 12, 

* Team 6 underwent an odd transition of managers. Chip Hendrick left, Joe Walsh took Over, Joe left,

Chip returned, Chip left, Joe returned and has run Team 6 since.

 * I do not have information regarding 4 of the 1980 Founding managers. They are listed as ??? while

OPEN teams are listed as XXX.

* This is a list for Managers and Franchises so I skipped listing TEAM NAMES which I do have.

* The number of managers for the franchise is shows in (parenthesis).

* Franchise's longest owner is in Boldface/CAPS

* Blue designates that the manager owned teams for two franchises 

* There are      46 Seasons for Teams 1-16.      31  for Teams 17-18.      22 for Teams 19-20.

TEAM 1 (7)   Stu Lipken 1980-1994   Todd Schryver 1995   Don Conaway 1996-1997   Jerome Ables 1998

Matt Sanner 1999   Nathan White 2000   MIKE CARPENTER 2001-2025

TEAM 2 (8)   Dick Nelson 1980-1994   Joel Daas 1995   Eugene Stomp 1996   Mike Rodriguez 1997-1998

Eddie Frietas 1999-2007   John Ramsey 2008   JAMIE CHAGNON 2009-2024   Jeff Fesperman 2025 

TEAM 3 (6)   David Zack 1980   Jeff Morabito 1981-1984   Doug Richardson 1985-1989  

Jeff Johnson 1990-1991   Lt Col Frank Kelly 1992-1998   MARK SANNER 1999-2025

TEAM 4 (10)   Ed Coss 1980-1986   Chris Besecker 1987-1891   Larry Richards 1992-1995 

John Barkoviak 1996   Randy Hulett 1997   XXX 1998   Mike Murphy 1999-2009   Jon Stamets 2010-2012

Tony Giorgi 2013   RICH GILLUM 2014-2025

TEAM 5 (7)   Chuck Schaffer 1980-1987   James Shaeffer 1988   BILL ROBISON 1989-1998 / 2001-2018

Brian Stokes 1999   Nick Sebasta 2000   (Robinson 2001-2018))   XXX 2019   Scott Adams 2020-2025

TEAM 6 (3)   ??? 1980   Chip Hendrick 1981-1984 / 1987-1988   JOE WALSH 1985-1986 / 1989-2025

TEAM 7 (13)   Steve Brown 1980-1986   Carl Seawick 1987   Jim Lindquist 1988   

Darin Payne 1989-1990 Phil Loudin 1991   John Unterreiner 1992-1995   David Allen 1996 

 Clint Anderson 1997   XXX 1998 Stephan Feurhartdt  1999-2003 Chris Malitsky 2004-2010  

Scott Novoseller 2011    DUSTIN RIDGEWAY 2012-2025

TEAM 8 (6)   Tom Underwood 1980-1982   Mike Konwinski 1983-1984   Maark Hetterich 1985-1989

Roger Katter 1990-2001   Greg Smith 2002   RICHIE WAGGONER 2003-2025

TEAM 9   (12)   ??? 1980-1982   Dave Robertson 1983-1985   ROB WORKMAN 1986-2001  

Chris Sims 2002-2010   Bernie Knauber 2011-2012   Jack Neahusen 2013   Gil Smith 2014 

Jay Schwass 2015   Rob Lennon 2016   Earl Christianson 2017   XXX 2018   Chris Malitsky 2019-2025

TEAM 10 (2)   Tom Skellie 1980-1982  JIM WALSH 1983-2025

TEAM 11 (8)   ??? 1980-1981   Doug Hennes 1982-1985   Jeff Hall 1986-1987   Sean Palatka 1988-1990

Dan Payton 1991-1997   XXX 1998   BOB SARCEWICZ 1999-2022   Tyler Petrie 2023-2025 

TEAM 12 (13)   ??? 1980   John Martin 1981-1984   Ron Charron 1985-1989   Pat Walsh 1990

Darin Payne 1991-1994   Jeff Snell 1995   James Carrico 1996  Greg Smith 1997   XXX 1998

Tony Abrantes 1999-2006  CHRIS CURTIS 2007-2019   XXX 2020-2022   Dave Gineo 2023-2025

TEAM 13 (5) Dennis Engle 1980-1991   DC Deur 1992-1995   Cliff Knotek 1996-1997   XXX 1998

WAYNE TOMCZEWSKIi 1999-2025

TEAM 14 (2)   Brian Giles 1980-1983  BART WALSH 1984-2025

TEAM 15 (2)    Steve Bronson 1980-1985   MARK CARPENTER 1986-2025

TEAM 16 (3)   Jon Hieber 1980-1986   George Mowry 1987  DAN MODEL 1988-2025  

TEAM 17 (6)   SCOTT ADAMS 1995-2014   Tim Wofford 2015   XXX 2016   Jay Snider 2017-2021

XXX 2022   Ben Cunliffe 2023-2025

TEAM 18 (3)   Darin Stephenson 1995-2002   Craig Hale 2003-2011   JIM WALSH (JJ) 2012-2025

TEAM 19 (2)   Stephan Skubis 2004   RAY CASH 2005-2025

TEAM 20 (2)   Mike Taday 2004   BRAD ECKEL 2005-2025

The Manager Chart is arranged by Franchises.

Here's a list of managers in

order of their years of service in the USPBL. 

** denotes they are current managers.

Years / Manager / Franchise

43  Jim Walsh  #10 **

42  Bart Walsh #14  **

40  Mark Carpenter #15 **

39  Joe Walsh #6  **

38  Dan Model #16  **

28  Bill Robison #5

27  Mark Sanner #3  **

27  Wayne Tomczewski #13  **

26  Scott Adams #17  #5  **

25  Mike Carpenter #1  **

24  Bob Sarcewicz #11

23  Richie Waggoner #8  **

21  Ray Cash #19  **

21  Brad Eckel #20  **

16  Rob Workman #9

16  Jamie Chagnon #2

15  Stu Lipken #1

15  Dick Nelson #2

14  Dustin Ridgeway #7  **

14  Jim Walsh (JJ) #18  **

14  Chris Malitsky #7  #9  **

13  Chris Curtis #12

12  Rich Gillum #4  **

12  Rodger Katter #8

12  Dennis Engle  #13

11   Mike Murphy #4

 That's 16 of the Top 26 (those

in double-digit seasons) that are

currently in the USPBL.