Who's the longest tenured head Baseball coach in your area?

 
I may be missing someone but in NW Ohio these two are definitely the first that come to mind. Each crossed the 700 win mark in the last 2 seasons as well.
Perrysburg - Dave Hall (39 years)
Ottawa Hills - Chris Hardman (44 years)
 
Trent Dues at Butler will do season 30 this year. He won't hit the 700 win mark this season but will in the coming years (I believe he is just over 600 at this point) likely before he retires.

Mark Pelfrey at Springboro is on year 34, recently inducted into the OHSBCA Hall of Fame.

Just a couple that come to mind in SW.
 
Mark Thompson at Elder has to be in the mid 30's in coaching years. Couple of state titles.
Ray Hamilton just retired from Lakota East had 34 years in. State title.
 
I'm sure that Mike Shade from Gahanna Lincoln is one of the longest tenured coaches in central Ohio. He's been at Gahanna Lincoln for a long time. He also was inducted into the HOF last year.
 
A couple of others in central Ohio. Great coaches and have been coaching a while.

TOM NEUBERT- Columbus Desales.
COREY CONN- Lancaster.
MICHAEL SANDMAN- New Albany.
BUCK WORKMAN- Northmoor.
TOM MARKER- Olentangy Orange.
RANDY LEACH- Ridgedale.
RAY BENJAMIN- St. Charles.
JEFF BOULWARE- Bishop Watterson.
JEFF KEIFER- Westerville North.
 
Akron area here. I know the Ellet coach was there for a long time and recently stepped down. I do know Mike Haney has been the HC at Kent Roosevelt for 21-22 something years if not slightly longer. I don't know of anyone else around who has been at their school longer.
 
lang78 said:
Ray was so good and underrated!!!!
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He was good and I don't know that he was underrated but he seemed to go out of his way to make people mad. That might have been why he exited like he did. Personally, I thought he would retire when his son graduated, then I thought he would stop coaching after he retired from teaching and then his position became available after the end of last year.
 
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