Demie Mainieri

Demie John Mainieri

• School Potomac State College, West Virginia University, Columbia University
• High School Lincoln High School

• Born October 21, 1928 in Jersey City, NJ USA
• Died March 13, 2019 in Baton Rouge, LA USA

Biographical Information

Demie Mainieri was the head coach at Miami Dade Community College North for many years, and became the first junior college coach to win 1,000 games on March 12, 1990, beating Lloyd Simmons by one week. Mainieri won 1,012 games at Miami-Dade.

He was a coach for the US in the 1978 Amateur World Series.

His son is Paul Mainieri, the head coach at Louisiana State University.

He later scouted for the Milwaukee Brewers throughout the 1990s and part-time for the Chicago Cubs in Florida.

Further Reading

• Demie Mainieri, Paul Mainieri’s father and hall of fame coach, dies at 90
• WVU Hall of Fame page