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Legendary Coach Mike ‘Skip’ Gillespie Passes Away

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College baseball lost one of its giants in the coaching industry as former USC and UC Irvine head coach Mike Gillespie died Wednesday at the age of 80.

“Skip had a presence about him that you seldom see or feel, he was a true leader in every sense of the word. He was a master of baseball he could see things coming that normal people could not. An elite teacher of the game and[…]