Johnny Reagan
Biographical details | |
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Born | Murray State | May 31, 1926
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1978–1987 | Murray State |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 776–508–11 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
OVC: 1958, 1959 (co-champion), 1961, 1963 (co-champion), 1964, 1965, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1991 (regular season). | |
Awards | |
OVC Coach of the Year: 1963, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1985, 1991 | |
John Lee Reagan (May 31, 1926 – December 14, 2018) was an American
Playing career
Born in
He began a career in professional baseball after graduation and spent two years in the St. Louis Cardinals minor league system.[10][11]
Coaching career
Reagan began his coaching career as the baseball and basketball coach at Bismarck High School. He later began his college coaching career at Northeast Louisiana State College (now the University of Louisiana at Monroe), where he coached basketball for two seasons before returning to Murray State in 1957 to take over as head baseball coach.
His first team at Murray State posted a 14–5 record and won the OVC regular-season championship. His teams won or shared 10 more conference titles, the last in 1991. He also led Murray State to 27-straight winning seasons and its first two
During his tenure as baseball coach, he was a seven-time OVC Coach of the Year and developed several professional players, including major leaguers Pat Jarvis, Jack Perconte and Kirk Rueter.
While still baseball coach, Reagan served as director of athletics at Murray State from 1978 to 1987. During much of that time (1978–1986), he also served as chairman of the NCAA Baseball Committee.[14]
Reagan retired from coaching after the 1993 season. The school retired his baseball uniform No. 36 shortly thereafter.[15]
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Murray State News - ^ http://www.ovcsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=6200&ATCLID=1418083 OVC Hall of Fame Web page
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://www.goracers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=6700&ATCLID=204764050 Murray State Athletics Hall of Fame
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Reagan, legendary MSU baseball coach, dies at 92". 14 December 2018.
- ^ "Twenty-one Years on the Hardwood," by D.S. Brumbaugh (1946)
- ^ "No. 5 Retired for Racer Great Marcus Brown". 7 February 2010.
- ^ "Johnny Lee Reagan". 17 December 2018.
- ^ "Home". racerhistory.com.
- ^ "Johnny Reagan Minor Leagues Statistics & History".
- ^ http://www.ovcsports.com//pdf5/418564.pdf?SPSID=30967&SPID=2437&DB_OEM_ID=6200 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Record Book
- ^ http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/baseball_RB/2010/D1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ 1992 Murray State Baseball Media Guide
- ^ http://thenews.org/2014/03/07/staying%E2%80%88busy-johnny-reagan-talks-of-legendary-career-as-player-coach-at-murray-state/