Baseball ⚾ Olympians
Kip Harkrider, Atlanta 1996 1 Bronze
Calvin Murray, Barcelona 1992
Taylor Teagarden, Beijing 2008 Bronze
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Coach Cliff replaced Bibb Falk as the head baseball coach. Gustafson is one of a few college coaches who both played in the College World Series and coached it. Cliff finished his Longhorn college career at Texas with a .308 average. Cliff Gustafson had one year (1953) pitching in the professional West Texas-New Mexico League….
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