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Jack Stallings
Baseball Feature Writer


Jack Stallings

Dept. of Health and Kinseology
Georgia Southern University

Jack Stallings is one of the most respected names in college baseball. Over his career, his contribution of "teaching the game" is unequalled on both the national and international levels.


Jack Stallings is Associate Professor, Department of Health and Kinesiology, and (until his retirement in May, 1999) was also Head Baseball Coach at Georgia Southern University (1975-1999). He held the same positions previously at Wake Forest University (1958-1968) and Florida State University (1969-1975). He received his B.S. Degree from Wake Forest (1955) and M.Ed. from the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill (1956).

He has been the author of 105 articles published in coaching magazines and journals,17 manuals dealing with international, national, and local baseball, and two textbooks. He has produced nine instructional baseball videotapes and contributed to five books. He has served as a baseball consultant in more than two dozen countries and many organizations in the United States. He has received teaching and travel grants from various organizations to travel literally around the world to teach and coach baseball, as the coach of various United States Baseball Teams, and as a clinician or administrator.

In his international travels, he has visited more than forty countries on all five continents, and has met with the heads of state of the United States (Ronald Reagan), Argentina (Juan and Evita Peron), Nicaragua (Anastasio Somoza), Nigeria (Ibrahim Babangida), and Cuba (Fidel Castro). He has met with the Ministers of Education and the Ministers of Sport of Estonia, Russia, the Peoples' Republic of China, Nigeria, and the Republic of Cniria (Taiwan).

Mr. Stallings has coached the USA National Baseball Team in the Pan American Games (1979), the IBA World Tournament (1970, 1973), the IBA Intercontinental Cup (1979), and the Olympic Games (1984); in addition, he participated as a player in the Pan American Games in 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has also served as administrator for the International Baseball Association in the Pan American Games (1979, 1983, 1987), the IBA World Tournament (1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992,) the IBA Intercontinental Cup (1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1993), and the Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992).

He has hosted international coaches and teams at Georgia Southern University every year since 1977 and has conducted and spoken at dozens of clinics throughout the United States. He has been active in local, state, national, and international organizations and has served as Chair and as a member of numerous committees in these organizations. He has held office in the U.S. Baseball Federation (Secretary-Treasurer, International Vice President), American Baseball Coaches Association (Vice President, President, Chairman of the Board), Amateur Baseball Inc. (Secretary-Treasurer) and the International Baseball Association (Technical Commissioner and Director of the Ambassadors Program).

He and his wife Norma live near Statesboro where she raises and shows Arabian horses. They have been married for 49 years and have three sons. He retired from coaching baseball in May, 1999 as the winningest active NCAA baseball coach in America with 1258 wins.

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