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Need help with baseball trivia question

Posted on 4/23/11 at 11:05 am
Posted by dirtyred
Springfield, LA
Member since Feb 2008
1040 posts
Posted on 4/23/11 at 11:05 am
A guy came in the bar yesterday, said his dad was a baseball coach at lsu and went to Omaha. He has since died of cancer, he was from Livingston parish. Any ideas?
This post was edited on 4/23/11 at 11:12 am
Posted by tigerinsouthaven
Southaven, MS
Member since Feb 2011
27 posts
Posted on 4/23/11 at 11:13 am to
Bettle Baily
Posted by Doc Fenton
New York, NY
Member since Feb 2007
52698 posts
Posted on 4/23/11 at 11:17 am to
Yep, here's the story from 2005: LINK.

I played on a couple of teams with the son.

EDIT: People always talk about Turtle Thomas, but Bailey seems to be underrated and largey forgotten as a great hitting coach. My impression of him was that he wasn't so much of a guy who mentored hitting styles as he was a guy that just enforced a healthy dose of good ole fashioned hitting discipline (he was an ex-principal after all). He was a hardass on players who swung at balls, who didn't get down to first base fast enough, who hit too many fly balls, who made too many outs on hitters' counts, etc. He used to always be out on the 1B coaches' box with that stopwatch in his hand, observing everyone's timing like a hawk.
This post was edited on 4/23/11 at 11:35 am
Posted by dirtyred
Springfield, LA
Member since Feb 2008
1040 posts
Posted on 4/23/11 at 11:18 am to
The son came in with a friend, they're doing a golf tourney, sounds like a great cause.
Posted by beary25
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2008
1086 posts
Posted on 4/23/11 at 11:26 am to
Beetle was a great coach, man, and mentor. Went to church with and got to know him after he left lsu. We still all called him coach. His son runs some operations at a private baseball park in br
Posted by Dizz
Member since May 2008
14721 posts
Posted on 4/23/11 at 11:32 am to
He was pretty funny and could tell a great story as well.
Posted by LSUBASEBALL06
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Jul 2005
3407 posts
Posted on 4/23/11 at 11:46 am to
Cypress Mounds
This post was edited on 4/23/11 at 1:15 pm
Posted by lsufan52
new iberia la
Member since Oct 2009
1970 posts
Posted on 4/23/11 at 12:09 pm to
bettle bailey was a class act
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