Add another feather to the cap of longtime Louisiana RaginÐÓ°ÉרÇø™ Cajuns baseball coach Tony Robichaux.
He will be posthumously inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January. Robichaux died on July 3, 2019, after a quarter century as head coach.
The ABCA is the worldÐÓ°ÉרÇø™s largest amateur baseball organization. More than 13,000 coaches are members.
Few, however, are likely to attain as much success as Robichaux.
He led RaginÐÓ°ÉרÇø™ Cajuns teams to 914 wins during 25 years at the ÐÓ°ÉרÇø. His 1,177 total wins as a college baseball coach place him among the Top 50 winningest coaches in history.
Robichaux coached 58 former players who were selected in the Major League Baseball draft, and 29 All-Americans.
In 2000, he led the team to its only appearance in the College World Series. His teams were nationally ranked many times, including No. 1 in 2014. The RaginÐÓ°ÉרÇø™ Cajuns finished 58-10 that season, a school record.
is among eight coaches who will enter the ABCA Hall of Fame during an induction ceremony planned for Jan. 8 in Washington, D.C.
The others are: Bill Anderson, Occidental College; Roger Cador, Southern ÐÓ°ÉרÇø; Sammy Dunn, Vestavia Hills High School; Wayne Graham, Rice ÐÓ°ÉרÇø; George Horton, California State ÐÓ°ÉרÇø, Fullerton and the ÐÓ°ÉרÇø of Oregon; and Don Sneddon, Santa Ana College.
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Photo caption: Longtime Louisiana RaginÐÓ°ÉרÇø™ Cajuns baseball coach Tony Robichaux (center) will be posthumously inducted into American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January. Photo credit: Brad Kemp / Louisiana RaginÐÓ°ÉרÇø™ Cajuns Athletics