Danny Price (baseball coach) explained

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
Awards:
  • 3× Trans America Athletic Coach of the Year (1991, 1995, 1998)

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: FIU Fires Danny Price . https://web.archive.org/web/20121116071519/http://slog.cstv.com/touchingthebases/2007/05/fiu_fires_danny_price.html . dead . November 16, 2012 . Doug Kroll . May 20, 2007 . CSTV Networks, Inc. . www.slog.cstv.com . June 15, 2018.
  2. Web site: Baseball Drops Season Opener 10–5 at Florida International. https://web.archive.org/web/20110622005734/http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/stories/031005ada.html. dead. June 22, 2011. 10 March 2005. CSTV. 7 July 2010.
  3. Web site: Danny Price steps down from the Sharks Helm. Miami Dade College. June 6, 2019.
  4. Web site: Price Vies For Winning On And Off The Field . Arthur Lantigua . April 13, 2017 . The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College . www.mdcthereporter.com . June 15, 2018.