Mike Stone (baseball)

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Mike Stone
Sport(s) Baseball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team UMass
Conference Atlantic 10 Conference
Biographical details
Born (1955-04-29) April 29, 1955
Playing career
Baseball
1974
1974–1976
1976
1977
1978

Football
1978–1981
Gulf Coast Cardinals
St. Petersburg Cardinals
Arkansas Travelers
St. Petersburg Cardinals
Lodi Dodgers
Clinton Dodgers

UMass
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1983–1987
1988–Present		 Vermont
UMass
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
A-10 Coach of the Year: 1994, 1995, 1996

Mike Stone (born April 29, 1955) is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as the head coach of the UMass Minutemen baseball team. He was named to that position prior to the 1988 season.[1][2][3][4]

Playing career

Stone played high school baseball at Taft School, and was drafted in the third round of the 1974 MLB Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals. He played four seasons in the Cardinals organization, primarily as a catcher, and reached Class-AA, and spent one season in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.

After ending his baseball career, Stone played football for UMass while pursuing a degree in physical education.[1]

Coaching career

Stone began coaching at Northfield Mount Hermon School, serving as head baseball coach for the 1982 season. He then earned a position as head coach at Vermont, where he remained for five seasons, succeeding Jack Leggett. In his time at Vermont, the Catamounts struggled but finished above .500 in his final season. Stone also earned a master's degree while at Vermont.

Since taking over at UMass, the Minutemen have won eight Atlantic 10 Conference regular season crowns, a pair of Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Tournament titles, and seen 36 players sign professional contracts. Stone was named Atlantic 10 Conference Coach of the Year three times in a row from 1994 through 1996.[1]

Head coaching record

This table shows Stone's record as a college head coach.[5]

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Vermont (America East Conference) (1983–1987)
1983 Vermont 8–13–2
1984 Vermont 14–15
1985 Vermont 8–29
1986 Vermont 9–19
1987 Vermont 15–14
Vermont: 54–90–2
UMass (Atlantic 10 Conference) (1988–present)
1988 UMass 36–16 9–7 A-10 Tournament
1989 UMass 17–27 5–11
1990 UMass 26–20 12–4 A-10 Tournament
1991 UMass 26–25–1 10–6 A-10 Tournament
1992 UMass 25–16 11–5 A-10 Tournament
1993 UMass 18–21 9–11 A-10 Tournament
1994 UMass 31–17 19–4 1st A-10 Tournament
1995 UMass 38–14 19–5 1st NCAA Regional
1996 UMass 40–13 15–5 1st NCAA Regional
1997 UMass 35–12 17–4 1st East A-10 Tournament
1998 UMass 27–12 15–3 1st East A-10 Tournament
1999 UMass 26–23 13–8 1st East A-10 Tournament
2000 UMass 26–22–1 11–9–1 A-10 Tournament
2001 UMass 27–19 15–5 1st A-10 Tournament
2002 UMass 21–26 9–15
2003 UMass 26–19 14–7 1st A-10 Tournament
2004 UMass 19–26 10–14
2005 UMass 16–33 9–15
2006 UMass 14–30 11–16
2007 UMass 22–25 13–14
2008 UMass 18–27 11–16
2009 UMass 27–26 16–11 A-10 Tournament
2010 UMass 19–27 13–14
2011 UMass 17–29–1 8–15–1
2012 UMass 22–22 14–10 T-4th (13) A-10 Tournament[lower-alpha 1]
2013 UMass 14–31 7–17 14th (15)
UMass: 619–547–3
Total: 673–637–5

      National champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference tournament champion
      Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference division champion

  1. ↑ The top six finishers of the A-10's thirteen teams qualified for the tournament in 2012

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Mike Stone Bio". UMass Minutemen. Retrieved December 7, 2013. 
  2. ↑ Chris Corso (March 27, 2013). "Coach Mike Stone a fixture of UMass baseball program". Daily Collegian. Retrieved December 7, 2013. 
  3. ↑ "Baseball smacks of success". Boston Globe. April 20, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2013. 
  4. ↑ Kevin Henken (February 21, 2012). "Stone upholds high standards at UMass". New England Baseball Journal. Retrieved December 7, 2013. 
  5. ↑ UMass Baseball Record Book. UMass Minutemen. p. 11. Retrieved December 8, 2013. 
Current head baseball coaches of the Atlantic 10 Conference
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