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College Baseball’s Greatest Coaches
To begin with, John Scolinas, great coach at Cal-Poly Pamona. He had a unique way of teaching using a combination of examples that were both instructional and entertaining. You always knew when he was speaking at the coaches conventions. The hall would be filled.
Another of the best was Jerry Kindall, Arizona’s great fundamental baseball coach.
Skip Bertman is certainly on that list. The fact that LSU is in the College World Series again this year is a great testament of his hard work and team development. Paul Mainieri has picked up where Skip left off and continues the winning tradition.
Baseball’s Golden Years
In 1940, baseball was known as America’s Favorite Game and The National Pastime. There were sixteen Major League teams, all in the Northeast and Midwest, each at most an overnight train-ride away from all the others. The teams had been around for two generations; and each had its own traditions, legends, its own base of loyal fans, its own pantheon of heroes,
Admission prices were low and average people could afford to go to games: bleacher seats were fifty cents, grandstands a dollar, reserved seats .75 and, as I recall, (I never sat in one) box seats, .25. When the War started, they tacked on a ten per cent amusement tax and I think I remember a special ticket booth at which uniformed servicemen paid thirty-five cents for grandstand seats.
Baseball’s 600 Homerun Club
In the history of baseball there are only seven players who have hit 600 or more homeruns. The only active player in the 600 homerun club is New York Yankee shortstop Alex Rodriguez.
Barry Bonds (762 homeruns) – Bonds not only is the all time homerun leader but also holds the single season record with 73 homers in 2001 while playing with the San Francisco Giants. Although Bonds was involved in several steroid controversies he is still considered by many to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Bonds retired from baseball in 2007 and will be eligible to be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in 2012.
Hank Aaron (755 homeruns) – Even though Hank Aaron never hit more than 47 homeruns in one season he still comes in second on the all time homerun list with 755. Aaron is also a member of the 3,000 hit club and tied for fourth all time in runs scored with Babe Ruth. He was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in 1982.
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