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UC Irvine retired Mike Gillespie's No. 19 in 2018 (Shotgun Spratling)

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A Tribute To Mike Gillespie, College Baseball’s Beloved Mad Scientist

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STORY: Legendary coach Mike Gillespie passes away, national reaction

You can make a strong argument that college baseball has never seen a more imaginative, more intelligent, more entertaining coach than Mike Gillespie. You just never knew when Gillespie was going to deploy some novel defensive alignment, when he was going to call for a double-squeeze (which he did successfully in a super regional against No. 1 national seed Oregon State in 2014), or when he was going to unleash some other new[…]

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