John Lee Reagan was an American college baseball coach.
10 Facts About Johnny Reagan
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Johnny Reagan is a member of the Ohio Valley Conference, Murray State, American Baseball Coaches Association, Missouri Athletic and Bismarck High School halls of fame.
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Johnny Reagan enrolled at Murray State during World War II and quickly earned a place on the basketball and baseball teams.
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Johnny Reagan led Murray State in scoring in three of his four seasons and finished his career in 1948 with 973 points, a school record at the time.
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Johnny Reagan is one of nine players to have his Murray State basketball jersey number retired, as his No 20 hangs in the rafters of the school's CFSB Center.
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Johnny Reagan began a career in professional baseball after graduation and spent two years in the St Louis Cardinals minor league system.
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Johnny Reagan began his coaching career as the baseball and basketball coach at Bismarck High School.
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Johnny Reagan later began his college coaching career at Northeast Louisiana State College, where he coached basketball for two seasons before returning to Murray State in 1957 to take over as head baseball coach.
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Johnny Reagan's teams won or shared 10 more conference titles, the last in 1991.
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Johnny Reagan led Murray State to 27-straight winning seasons and its first two NCAA Division I Baseball Championship appearances, in 1975 and 1979.