Demie Mainieri

Demie J. Mainieri (October 21, 1928 – March 13, 2019) was an American college baseball head coach.

Biography

Mainieri was from New Jersey. He graduated from West Virginia University in 1963 with a Ph.D. in education and administration.[1] He served as an assistant coach in college football at Columbia University under head coach Lou Little.[2]

Mainieri served as the head coach of the college baseball team at Miami Dade Community College for thirty years, starting in 1960.[3][4] He was named athletic director in 1963.[2] Mainieri became the first junior college coach to win 1,000 career games. Mainieri won 1,012 games at Miami-Dade.[3]

Mainieri's son, Paul Mainieri, is the head coach for the LSU Tigers baseball team.[3]

Mainieri was inducted into the NJCAA Hall of Fame in 1983.[5] In 2014, Mainieri was elected into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.[3]

On March 13, 2019, Mainieri died at the age of 90.[6]

References

  1. ^ [1][dead link]
  2. ^ a b [2][dead link]
  3. ^ a b c d "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2014-07-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "MDC News". Mdc.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  5. ^ [3][dead link]
  6. ^ https://www.nola.com/lsu/2019/03/demie-mainieri-paul-mainieris-father-and-hall-of-fame-coach-dies-at-90.html



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