Danny Price | |
Current Title: | Head coach |
Current Team: | Miami Dade College |
Current Conference: | Southern |
Birth Place: | North Carolina, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | Florida International University |
Player Years1: | 1973–1974 |
Player Team1: | FIU |
Player Positions: | Outfielder |
Coach Years1: | 1976–1979 |
Coach Team1: | FIU (asst) |
Coach Years2: | 1980–2007 |
Coach Team2: | FIU |
Coach Years3: | 2011–present |
Coach Team3: | Miami Dade College |
Tournament Record: | NCAA DI: 7–14 |
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Danny Price is a former college baseball coach and former player. He was the head coach of the Florida International University (FIU) baseball team, a position that he held from 1980 until May 2007.[1] During that span, he recorded a thousand coaching victories, reaching that milestone on March 10, 2005.[2] He was then head coach at Miami Dade College from 2011 until his retirement in 2019, after which he planned to engage in charitable work.[3]
Price, the son of a sharecropper born in North Carolina, attended FIU and played on its baseball team as a student in 1973–74. He made the first hit for FIU, which had opened its doors a year before. He graduated in 1974, and returned as a hitting instructor in 1976.
Former FIU baseball players coached by Price include Major League Baseball star Mike Lowell, and over one hundred other students signed to play professional baseball with major and minor league teams.
At FIU, he was named TAAC Coach of the Year three times.
In 2011, Price was named the head coach at Miami Dade College.[4]