2-28-2024— Ken McLeland

Great guy....Greg Swindell and Roger Clemens were the last athletes I tutored after three years at the job.....I got a "tutor sheet" (to account for our time) out and turned it over and asked them to sign it for me "just in case they got famous"....They humored me and signed it....I put it in my notebook and in my backpack....later, I got it out to put it in a place of safe keeping and Roger had signed....."with all my LOVE, Roger Clemens"....still have it!!!

1985 Greg Swindell.jpg

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Bill, Looks like you played during the championship years, that's amazing. I just wanted to text you and see if I was getting any closer to the top of the list for you looking up my granddad Max Schlegel for baseball catcher 1939 and '40. Any pictures or statements of him that you can find is greatly appreciated. Thanks again,

Baseball Fan Gary McIntosh

Coach Disch

Gary McIntosh about Coach Gus and Coach Garrido

Disch, 29 years, .797 winning pct, 463 wins...there was no such thing as the College World Series when he coached..but his Texas teams won the SWC 22 of the 29 years he coached. He also coached 5 years or so at St Edward’s before becoming Texas coach.

Coach Falk

Then Bibb Falk coached from '40 to '67 seasons, missing 3 years during WWII when the football coach handled baseball while Bibb served. Falk had 434 wins, a .737 winning pct, in his 25 years, with 10 CWS appearances in the 18 years he coached where there was a CWS and won it all in '49 and 50, the first two years in Rosenblatt Stadium.

Coach Gus

Gustafson coached from '68 to 96, 29 years, won 1466 games, a .795 winning pct, took 17 teams to the CWS, winning in '75 and '83. Plus, he and Falk also took numerous teams to regionals too.

Coach Garrido

Garrido coached at Texas for 20 years, won 824 games, a .658 winning pct here, and won national titles in 2002 and 2005. He also coached 21 years at Cal St Fullerton, winning 3 national titles, 3 years at Illinois, 1 at SF St, and 3 at Cal Poly. So 48 years coaching and 1975 total wins.

Coach Gus and Garrido both won 2 national titles at Texas, as did Bibb Falk. 3 of only 4 Longhorn baseball coaches at Texas from 1911 through 2016, the other being Billy Disch. Records for the coaches at Texas: Arguments can be made for all 4 as being the best.

Fan Cathy Sue Munson

Thanks so deeply for the outstanding article on Coach Bibb Falk. My dad, Charles Munson, played for and idolized his beloved Coach Falk. If I had been a boy my name was to be "Bibb Falk Munson." It was a delight and honor for my mother, Dorothy, and I, to get to sit by Bibb in the stands as he was truly wonderfully a one-of-a-kind champion and an MVP legend.

Hook Em Horns!

On Monday, May 4, 2020, 08:29:37 AM CDT, Billy Dale <williamdale@msn.com> wrote: