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Dave Garcia

American baseball coach, scout, and manager (1920–2018)

Baseball player

David Garcia (September 15, 1920 – May 21, 2018)[2] was an American coach, scout and manager in Major League Baseball who spent over 65 years in professional baseball. He served as manager of the California Angels (1977–78) and Cleveland Indians (1979–82). Including three games as acting manager of the 1975 Indians, during his first coaching tenure there, he compiled a career record of 310 wins and 311 defeats (.499).[3]

Career

Garcia was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, to Spanish immigrant parents[4] and entered the game in 1939. Derailed by injury as a player,[4] Garcia was a minor leagueinfielder for almost 20 seasons — much of that time in the farm system of the New York Giants — and never made it to the major leagues. His playing career also was interrupted by three years (1943–45) of service in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II,[5] and much of his later active career was spent as a player-manager in the l

David Garcia

David R. Garcia is an associate professor with Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College in the division of educational leadership and innovation. He is also the director of the Arizona Education Policy Initiative (AEPI) at Arizona State University.

Prior to joining ASU, he was a senior research analyst with the Arizona Center for Public Policy-ThinkAZ (2002-2004), an associate superintendent of public instruction, Arizona Department of Education (2001-2002), a director of research and policy with Arizona Department of Education (1998-2001), a research analyst with the Senate Education Committee, Arizona State Legislature (1997-1998) and research associate wtih the National Opinion Research Chicago, Illinois in 1996. He was the 2008-2009 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. The Spencer fellowships are the oldest source of support for education research, nationally or internationally, for recent recipients of the doctorate.

David García

David García grew up in Texas in a family with deep roots in education: one grandfather was named for the teacher of the one-room schoolhouse his siblings attended in Turnersville, TX; the other was in the first graduating class from the pioneering junior college serving the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and later one of the first two Mexican-American graduates — with his younger brother — from the University of Texas law school.

Prof. García’s path led him to the east coast, looking back all the while, with stops in New Haven, CT; Ithaca, NY; New York City; Ithaca again; and now Kenosha.

Entering Yale University as a physics major, Prof. García had a life-changing experience when he really needed one, with a great teacher in an English classroom. He has never forgotten that experience and aspires to replicate it for the benefit of his students.

Alongside his faculty work, Prof. García has enjoyed a long and fulfilling administrative career at New York University, Ithaca College, and here at Carthage, culminating in a stint as the College’s chief academic offi

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