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The
Clemson Tigers baseball program is a
college baseball team that represents
Clemson University in the Atlantic Division of the
Atlantic Coast Conference in the
National Collegiate Athletic Association .
[1] The team has had 28 head coaches since it started playing organized baseball in the 1896 season.
[2] The current coach is
Erik Bakich , who took over the head coaching position in 2023.
Bill Wilhelm is the all-time leader in games coached (1,707), seasons coached (36), and total wins (1,161).
[2]
John Heisman has the highest
winning percentage of any Tiger coach with a 28–6–1 record (.814) in his three years in Clemson.
[2]
R. T. V. Bowman has the lowest winning percentage (.250 in two seasons).
[2]
In 2011, Wilhelm was inducted into the
National College Baseball Hall of Fame .
[3]
Key
Conference
[A 2]
CW
Wins
CL
Losses
CT
Ties
C%
Winning percentage
Postseason
[A 3]
PA
Total Appearances
[A 4]
PW
Total Wins
PL
Total Losses
WA
College World Series appearances
[A 5]
WW
College World Series wins
WL
College World Series losses
Championships
DC
Division regular season
[A 6]
CC
Conference regular season
CT
Conference tournament
[A 7]
Coaches
List of head baseball coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards
*Statistics correct as of the end of the
2019 NCAA Division I baseball season
#
Name
Term
[A 8]
Awards
[A 9]
1
R. T. V. Bowman
1896, 1898
8
2
6
0
.250
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—
—
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—
—
—
—
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0
—
2
Unknown
1899–1900
17
12
5
0
.706
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—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
0
—
3
John Heisman
1901–1903
35
28
6
1
.814
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—
—
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—
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—
—
0
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4
John McMakin
1904–1906
46
20
23
3
.467
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—
—
—
—
—
—
0
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5
Frank Shaughnessy
1907
17
9
7
1
.559
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—
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—
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—
—
—
—
0
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6
Robert Lynch
1908
17
6
11
0
.353
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—
—
—
—
—
—
—
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—
—
—
0
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7
Jesse Reynolds
1909
22
10
12
0
.455
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—
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—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
0
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8
Joe Holland
1910
21
10
11
0
.476
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—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
0
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9
Frank Dobson
1911–1913
58
37
21
0
.638
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—
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—
—
—
—
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—
—
—
—
0
—
10
Thomas Robertson
1914
22
16
6
0
.727
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—
—
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—
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—
—
0
—
11
Vet Sitton
1915–1916
45
26
18
1
.589
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—
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—
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—
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—
—
0
—
12
Country Morris
1917, 1920
45
17
28
0
.378
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—
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—
—
—
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—
—
—
—
0
—
13
Edward Donahue
1918–1919
39
17
21
1
.449
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—
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—
—
—
0
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14
Larry Conover
1921
19
5
14
0
.263
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—
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—
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0
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15
L. V. H. Durfee
1922–1924
56
29
26
1
.527
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—
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—
—
0
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16
T. Everett May
1925
25
11
14
0
.440
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—
—
—
—
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—
—
—
—
—
—
0
—
17
Cul Richards
1926
19
8
11
0
.421
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—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
0
—
18
Tink Gillam
1927
25
11
13
1
.460
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—
—
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—
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—
—
0
—
19
Joe Guyon
1928–1931
81
42
36
3
.537
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—
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—
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—
—
0
—
20
Jess Neely
1932–1938
135
67
66
2
.504
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0
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21
Randy Hinson
1939–1940, 1946–1947
79
58
19
2
.747
13
2
0
.867
1
3
2
0
0
0
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1
—
0
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22
Tom Rogers
1941–1942
34
18
14
2
.747
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—
—
0
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23
Frank Howard
1943
15
12
3
0
.800
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—
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0
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24
Walter T. Cox
1945, 1948–1951
119
70
48
1
.592
47
18
1
.720
1
0
2
0
0
0
—
0
0
0
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25
Robert W. Smith
1952–1957
119
52
65
2
.445
39
50
2
.440
[A 10]
2
3
4
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1
0
0
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26
Bill Wilhelm †
1958–1993
1707
1161
536
10
.683
378
158
1
.706
17
42
36
6
4
12
—
20
7
0
ACC (1988, 91);
[4]
ABCA District III (1991)
[5]
27
Jack Leggett
1994–2015
1189
812
376
1
.683
304
166
1
.646
17
65
39
6
8
12
2
2
2
0
ACC (1994, 95, 2006);
[4]
ABCA Atlantic Region (2002, 10)
[6]
[7]
28
Monte Lee
2016–2022
251
168
83
0
.669
70
50
0
.583
4
8
9
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
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29
Erik Bakich
2023–Present
63
44
19
0
.698
20
10
0
.667
1
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
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Notes
^ A running total of the number of head coaches.
^ Clemson was a member of the
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association from 1900 until 1923, but the conference did not sponsor baseball. The
Southern Conference , of which Clemson was a member from 1924 until 1953, did not sponsor baseball until 1947. Since 1954, Clemson has been a member of the
Atlantic Coast Conference .
^ Postseason play involving the
NCAA Division I Baseball Championship .
^ Postseason appearances include seasons with NCAA Division I Baseball Championship bids since the tournament began in 1947.
^ College World Series appearances include seasons with CWS bids since the tournament began in 1947.
^ The Atlantic Coast Conference split into two divisions in 2006. Since then, regular season conference championships are no longer awarded.
^ The Southern Conference held a tournament from 1950 until 1953. The Atlantic Coast Conference began a baseball tournament in 1974. The tournament was not held in 1979.
^ Clemson did not sponsor a baseball team in 1897 or 1944.
^ National, regional and conference coach of the year awards.
^ 21–16 (.568) against SoCon opponents and 18–34–2 (.352) against ACC opponents.
References
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Specific
Venues Rivalries People
Seasons College World Series appearances in italics