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May 27, 1935 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States Died on 24 Dec 2017 (aged 82)
American baseball player
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About Jerry Kindall
- Gerald Donald Kindall (May 27, 1935 – December 24, 2017) was an American professional baseball player and college baseball player and coach.
- He was primarily a second baseman in Major League Baseball who appeared in 742 games played over nine seasons between 1956 and 1965 for three MLB clubs.
- Then, after his playing career, he became the highly successful head baseball coach of the University of Arizona Wildcats, winning 860 games and three College World Series championships over 24 seasons (1973–1996).Kindall was born in Saint Paul, and graduated from Washington High School before attending the University of Minnesota.
- In 1956, as a student-athlete at Minnesota, his Golden Gophers won the NCAA Division I baseball championship; 20 years later, Kindall became the first man to win College World Series titles as both a player and a head coach.
- He is also the only batter to hit for the cycle in the history of the College World Series and was elected to the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007.
