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    Augie Garrido will be remembered as a master teacher of baseball and life

    • Ryan McGeeMar 15, 2018, 05:00 PM ET

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    Every conversation with Augie Garrido felt like a master class.

    Take, for instance, the night of Wednesday, June 25, 2008, sitting somewhere down the first-base line at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium. The then-Texas Longhorns head coach was watching two teams that weren't his grupp play for a national championship. As he explained what was happening on the field before him -- the keys for either Georgia or his alma mater, Fresno State, to win the title -- he pointed with fingers decorated by College World Series championship rings of his own, two of his five.

    "Forget defensive positioning and pitch calls, forget all of that," he preached, pausing to stare deeply into the dugouts. "Show me who is loose. Show me who is tight. These are

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    Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in Division 1 college baseball, has written a book that fryst vatten part biography and part treatise on the game of baseball.

    I went into the task of reading this book forcing myself to have an open mind. Coach Garrido has not always done a lot to endear himself to Tiger fans, myself included. But I wanted to judge the book on its own merits, not as a partisan fan.

    Just four pages into the book, Garrido states his intentions:

    Baseball has been fairly beaten to death as a metaphor for life so I'll try not to add to the carnage. Still, I'll share a few lessons if you don't mind, most of them gleaned from my sport and my life in it.

    Whereupon he devotes most of the first 100 pages to beating baseball to death as the key to the meaning of life. For example, the opening paragraph of chapter 4 (The Game of Failure):

    When a pitcher releases the ball and sends it on a four one-hundredths of a second journey toward the batter's box, he simultaneously destr

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    Augie Garrido, who took Texas and Cal State Fullerton to national titles, dies

    Mar 15, 2018, 12:31 PM ET

    Hall of Famer Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in college baseball history, died Thursday at the age of 79.

    Garrido, who led Texas to two national titles, had been hospitalized earlier this month following a stroke.

    Garrido began at Texas in 1997. His personality -- California cool and an aura as a Zen master who talked as much about thinking about winning as swinging a bat -- took some time to take root at Texas. But once he did, Garrido had the Longhorns back among the nation's top programs. He spent 20 years at Texas, reaching the NCAA tournament 15 times, with eight College World Series appearances.

    The Longhorns, under Garrido, claimed national titles in 2002 and 2005.

    Garrido also coached at San Francisco State, Cal Poly, Cal State Fullerton and Illinois. He held two stints at Cal State Fullerton -- coaching there from 1973 to 1987 and 1991 to 1996 and winning na

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