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Ed Blankmeyer (born December 15, 1954) is an American
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coach and former second baseman. He is the manager of the
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of the
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Career

Blankmeyer played college baseball at Seton Hall University from 1973 to 1976. He served as an assistant coach at Seton Hall before serving as the head baseball coach at St. John's University (New York City), St. John's University from 1996 to 2019. Under Blankmeyer, St. John's won six Big East Conference (1979–2013), Big East Conference Regular season Championships and five Big East Tournament championships. They appeared in ten NCAA Regionals and one NCAA Super Regional. Blankmeyer has received the Big East Conference's Big East Conference Baseball Coach of the Year, top coaching award eight times—six times as the head coach during the era in which the award was styled as "Coach of the Year" and presented solely to a head coach, and twice more under the award's current incarnation as the "Coaching Staff of the Year" award, presented to an entire staff. He has also received four ABCA Northeast Region Coach of the Year Awards. On January 6, 2020, Blankmeyer stepped down from St. John's and became the manager of the
Brooklyn Cyclones The Brooklyn Cyclones are a Minor League Baseball team of the South Atlantic League and the High-A affiliate of the New York Mets. They are based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, and play at Maimonides Park, just off the Coney Island Boar ...
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Head coaching record

Below is a table of Blankmeyer's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Blankmeyer, Ed 1954 births Living people Pulaski Phillies players Seton Hall Pirates baseball coaches Seton Hall Pirates baseball players St. John's Red Storm baseball coaches Minor league baseball managers