Augie garrido biography templates

  • August Edmun "Augie" Garrido Jr. (February 6, 1939 – March 15, 2018) was an American professional baseball player and coach in NCAA Division I college baseball.
  • Augie Garrido was a record-setting slugger for the Fresno State baseball team who later pursued coaching and became the winningest dugout general.
  • Early life and education.

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    Augie Garrido

    American baseball coach (1939–2018)

    Garrido in 2007

    Born(1939-02-06)February 6, 1939
    Vallejo, California, U.S.
    DiedMarch 15, 2018(2018-03-15) (aged 79)
    Newport Beach, California, U.S.
    1959–1961Fresno State
    Position(s)Outfielder
    1967–1968Sierra HS
    1969San Francisco State
    1970–1972Cal Poly
    1973–1987Cal State Fullerton
    1988–1990Illinois
    1991–1996Cal State Fullerton
    1997–2016Texas
    Overall1,975–951–9 (college)
    Tournaments139–71 (NCAA D-I and D-II)[1]
    • 5× College World Series (1979, 1984, 1995, 2002, 2005)
    • CCAA regular årstid (1974)
    • 4× PCAA/Big West regular season (1975, 1976, 1991, 1995)
    • PCAA South Division (1985)
    • 2× Big Ten tournament (1989, 1990)
    • 5× Big 12 tournament (2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015)
    • 7× Big 12 regular season (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011)
    • 2× The Sporting News College Coach of the Year (1975, 1979)
    • 2× Baseball America College Coach of t
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      Augie Garrido was a record-setting slugger for the Fresno State baseball team who later pursued coaching and became the winningest dugout general in National Collegiate Athletic Association history, including five College World Series crowns. Garrido, coach of national powerhouse University of Texas since 1996, traces his success to former Fresno State skipper Pete Beiden, the legendary fundamentalist. “Fresno was the foundation of my baseball coaching career” Garrido said.”Under Pete [Beiden] I realized the importance of a philosophy and why you do things.”

      When Vallejo-born Garrido put on his Fresno State Bulldog uniform for the first time in 1959, launching a three-year career with the ‘Dogs, his dream was to become a major league outfielder. Coaching? He didn’t think it was for him, or so he thought at the time. But he watched and took to heart some of Beiden’s most successful, time-tested coaching tactics and strategies. Later,

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      Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in Division 1 college baseball, has written a book that is part biography and part treatise on the game of baseball.

      I went into the task of reading this book forcing myself to have an open mind. Coach Garrido has not always done a lot to endear himself to Tiger fans, myself included. But I wanted to judge the book on its own merits, not as a partisan fan.

      Just four pages into the book, Garrido states his intentions:

      Baseball has been fairly beaten to death as a metaphor for life so I'll try not to add to the carnage. Still, I'll share a few lessons if you don't mind, most of them gleaned from my sport and my life in it.

      Whereupon he devotes most of the first 100 pages to beating baseball to death as the key to the meaning of life. For example, the opening paragraph of chapter 4 (The Game of Failure):

      When a pitcher releases the ball and sends it on a four one-hundredths of a second journey toward the batter's box, he simultaneously destr