Charles H. Maher (February 7, 1902 – January 1, 1971) was a former American

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

coach and

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. He played

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for

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for coach

Judson Hyames Judson A. Hyames (c. 1888 – August 19, 1949) was the head baseball coach at Western State Normal School/Western State Teachers College (now known Western Michigan University) from 1922 to 1936. In his 15 years at the school, he posted a 166� ...

from 1922 to 1925 before playing professionally in 1926. He then served as the head baseball coach of the

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from 1937 to 1943 and again from 1946 to 1967, leading the Broncos to six

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appearances including a second-place finish in the

1955 College World Series The 1955 NCAA baseball tournament was played at the end of the 1955 NCAA baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the College World Series, a double-eliminatio ...

. In 1989, he was inducted into the

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Hall of Fame.

Head coaching record

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