Dante Benedetti

Dante Benedetti (May 16, 1919 – November 16, 2005) was an American restaurateur and collegiate baseball coach. He was born in San Francisco and remained there the rest of his life. His family owned New Pisa, a restaurant in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. He loved baseball and coached at the University of San Francisco for 29 years. USF's current baseball field is named after him. Benedetti, with 373 wins, was San Francisco's all-time winningest coach until Nino Giarratano surpassed him in 2012.^[1]

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^ Sorenson, Eric (3 March 2012). "One of My Simple Pleasures in Life". College Baseball Today. Archived from the original on 2012-03-04. Retrieved 4 March 2012. San Francisco's Nino Giarratano picked up his 374th win in his Dons coaching career with today's 6-5, 10-inning win over Cal State Northridge. With the win he surpasses the legendary Dante Benedetti for the most wins in program history.

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[wins-1] Sorenson, Eric (3 March 2012). "One of My Simple Pleasures in Life". College Baseball Today. Archived from the original on 2012-03-04. Retrieved 4 March 2012. San Francisco's Nino Giarratano picked up his 374th win in his Dons coaching career with today's 6-5, 10-inning win over Cal State Northridge. With the win he surpasses the legendary Dante Benedetti for the most wins in program history.

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