Dusty Rhodes (baseball coach)
Rhodes coaching the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in 2011 | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 6, 1946 Talladega, Alabama |
| Alma mater | Palm Beach High School (1964) Palm Beach Jr. College (1966) Florida Southern College (1969) Florida Atlantic University (1973) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1969 | Florida Southern College (assistant) |
| 1974 | Palm Beach JC (assistant) |
| 1975–1982 | Palm Beach JC |
| 1983–1987 | Florida (assistant) |
| 1988–2010 | North Florida |
| 2011–2013 | Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (hitting) |
| 2014–2017 | Flagler College (volunteer assistant) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 1,212–566 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| NCAA Division II College World Series National Runner-up (2005) | |
| Awards | |
| 2016 American Baseball Coaches Association Lefty Gomez Award Winner Member of American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame Palm Beach County Sports Hall of Fame University of North Florida Athletics Hall of Fame (2011) Inaugural Peach Belt Conference Hall of Fame Peach Belt Conference Coach of the Year-1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005 Florida Sports Amateur Coach of the Year-2001 | |
Jack Dusty Rhodes (born 1946) is a retired American baseball coach and the former head coach of the University of North Florida. Over his more than 30-year college coaching career, he won more than 1,000 games and coached nearly two dozen Major League players. In January 2009, he was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and was a recipient of the ABCA's Lefty Gomez Award.