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{{Uses Wikidata|P12331}}
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== Usage ==
; Unnamed parameters
: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}} | <var>ID</var> }}</code>
: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}} | <var>ID</var> | <var>NAME</var> }}</code>

; Named parameters
: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}} | id= <var>ID</var> }}</code>
: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}} | id= <var>ID</var> | name= <var>NAME</var> }}</code>

; Using Wikidata property
: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}}<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}} | name= <var>NAME</var> }}</code>

== Instructions ==
To use this template, copy and paste of the following to a baseball manager's external links section:

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">
{{Baseball-reference manager|}}
{{Baseball-reference manager|id=}}
</syntaxhighlight>

Add the portion of the [[Uniform Resource Locator|URL]] from [[Baseball-Reference.com]] as the ID parameter. Find the manager's page on [https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/ baseball-reference.com/managers/] and locate the string of numbers and letters between <kbd>https://<nowiki/>www.baseball-reference.com/managers/</kbd> and <kbd>.shtml</kbd>. That is the manager's ID.

== Examples ==

=== Unnamed parameters ===
Example for [[Gene Lamont]]:

; URL
: <kbd>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/lamonge01.shtml https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/{{Highlight|lamonge01}}.shtml]</kbd>

; Usage
: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">{{Baseball-reference manager|lamonge01}}</syntaxhighlight>

; Output
: {{Baseball-reference manager|lamonge01|Gene Lamont}}

=== Named parameters ===
Example for [[Cy Young]]:

; URL
: <kbd>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/youngcy01.shtml https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/{{Highlight|youngcy01}}.shtml]</kbd>

; Usage
: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">{{Baseball-reference manager|id=youngcy01}}</syntaxhighlight>

; Output
: {{Baseball-reference manager|id=youngcy01|name=Cy Young}}

=== No parameters and Wikidata property not defined ===
; Usage
: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}}<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>

; Output
:{{ {{BASEPAGENAME}} }}

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