The Cornell Chronicle (http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May11/ObitThoren.html) and The Ithaca Journal (http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20110510/SPORTS03/105100368/-Father-Cornell-baseball-dies) report that long-time Cornell baseball coach Ted Thoren has died at the age of 89. He was the baseball head coach from 1962 through 1990.
I respectfully request a spell-check of the thread topic and first post. Ted Thoren.
Also, I found this remarkable (from the IJ story):
QuoteThoren's career total of 541 wins was a Cornell all-sport record until softball coach Dick Blood surpassed that total last Thursday.
Oops. Fixed the subject on my posts.
14.24 wins per year for 38 years adds up.
Ted Thoren was active in Cornell athletics literally until the day he died, both as a fund-raiser/supporter of baseball and as a member of the Hall of Fame selection committee. I will miss sitting with him at Hoy Field and hearing both his hilarious stories about past players and their "antics" as Ted called them and his astute analysis of coaching decisions and plays taking place during the game.