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...main man is Alex Nahigian, who succeeds Loyal Park as varsity baseball coach and will help out with football, too. A reportedly solid teacher, Nahigian has coached hardball at Providence College for the last 19 years, taking the Friars to postseason play nine times. He'll be expected to do the same with the '79 Crimson, as all but three varsity batsmen return for the spring season...
...most successful and respected collegiate coaches in the country, Nahigian was the unanimous choice of Harvard's six-member search committee. In 19 seasons at Providence, Nahigian compiled a 224-177-2 record, and was named New England Coach of the Year in 1973, when he led the Friars to a 23-5-1 mark...
...years of coaching baseball in Pawtucket, Nahigian won ten divisional titles and one state championship. His efforts were recognized and he became head baseball coach at Providence in 1960. He had 16 winning seasons with the Friars, who appeared in NCAA postseason play in nine of those years. In nine of the past 12 seasons, his teams ranked in the top ten nationally in team defense, and twice (1972 and '75) were national fielding leaders...
...Without question, Alex Nahigian is the finest teacher of the game in the collegiate ranks today. And his record backs this up," Dave Gavitt, Providence athletic director, said yesterday...
...addition to his baseball responsibilities, Nahigian will assist Harvard in its football program...