Comments on: William ‘Chick’ Leahey ’52, revered ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ baseball coach and mentor, dies at age 90 /news/2016/03/28/william-chick-leahey-52-dies-at-age-90/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:49:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Thomas Denegre /news/2016/03/28/william-chick-leahey-52-dies-at-age-90/#comment-262936 Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:01:00 +0000 /news/?p=100237#comment-262936 I had the honor and privilege of being coached by Chick Leahy in both baseball and football from 1976-1980. The most classic story was being a pitcher in 1977 as a freshman against UMO. It was a bitter cold day in early May and the wind was gusting towards center-field. It was a Monday game and snow in MA slowed my arrival to the game. I arrived in the 6th inning with the score of UMO 13 and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 12. Coach Leahy told me to suit up and when I arrived at the top of the 7th the score was UMO 18 and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 12. The wind was blowing so hard pop flies turned into home runs. Since I was the only warm person on the field my fast balls were too hot for the frozen UMO batters. In the 8th and 9th inning I took out six batters while our batters brought in 7 runs to win 19-18. We never saw UMO again.

Since my dad died when I was sixteen Coach Leahy was like a dad to me. I have great memories, honor, and love for him. May God bless him and his family.

Tom Denegre – Class of 1980

Columbus, OH

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