Don Schaly
Male, Deceased Person
1937 – 2005
Who was Don Schaly?
Don Schaly was an American baseball coach. He was the baseball coach at Marietta College in Ohio for 40 years, from 1964 to 2003.
Schaly, a native of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, retired following the 2003 season after 40 years at the helm of the Marietta baseball program. On March 9, 2005, he died after a short battle with cancer while attending the Pioneers' Spring Trip in Venice, Florida.
The 1959 graduate of Marietta College played baseball and football for the Pioneers. He returned to his alma mater in 1964 and never left, guiding his teams to three NCAA Division III National Championships and seven National Runner-up finishes. He won 18 Mideast Regional Championships and 27 Ohio Athletic Conference Championships.
The coach won numerous coaching awards during his career. He was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1995. Schaly was named the National Coach of the Year four times and in 2000 Collegiate Baseball named him the Division III Coach of the Century. Schaly was also awarded the OAC's Coach of the Year 17 times and the Mideast Regional Coach of the year 21 times.
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- Born
- Oct 9, 1937
Ellwood City - Education
- Pennsylvania State University
- Marietta College
- Lived in
- Pennsylvania
- Died
- Mar 9, 2005
Venice
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on July 23, 2013
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