Former Tiger baseball player Barry Manuel-Heart Surgery

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To my LSU Baseball brethren and extended LSU family, please keep my former teammate and roomie Barry Manuel (‘85-‘87) in your prayers as he has been hospitalized today and will undergo what appears to be a double bypass heart surgery later today or tomorrow. I spoke to him a few minutes ago and he is doing ok considering his doc told him he has 100% blockage in the widow maker artery. Knowing how hard this guy has worked out and taken care of himself his entire life, this is proof of the importance of hereditary factors with regards to heart disease. Please get checked out if you have a family history and urge those you care about to be proactive about it as well.

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In high school Manuel made the all-state team in 1984 and went on to play for LSU from 1984-87. In 1986 he was voted on the College Baseball All-American team. He was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the second round of the 1987 Major League Baseball draft. Manuel was 26 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 6, 1991, with the Texas Rangers.
After his major league career, Manuel played one game for the Seibu Lions in Japan in 1999.
Up in till the 2016-2017 school year Barry served as the head baseball coach and the gameday football coordinator for Westminster Christian Academy in Opelousas, Louisiana.
Barry currently serves as the head baseball coach for St Edmund Catholic School in Eunice, Louisiana.

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