Joe Walsh (college)

Joe Walsh

• School Suffolk University
• High School Catholic Memorial High School

• Born 1953
• Died July 31, 2012 in Chester, NH USA

Biographical information

Joe Walsh has been a college coach.

Walsh was head coach of Suffolk University, his alma mater, from 1981-1995, going 222-176-1. He replaced former major leaguer Jim Willoughby who resigned after 7 games. Walsh also coached in the Cape Cod League. In 1988 he was named manager of the expansion Brewster Whitecaps. He was also pitching coach of the Wareham Gatemen from 1991-1998. He was hired as Harvard's head coach in 1996, the first endowed baseball coach in school history (a former Harvard player had donated $2.5 million to endow the coach's job as one would a professorship). Walsh went 34-16 in 1997, leading Harvard to its first Ivy League title, then beat fourth-ranked UCLA in the NCAA Tournament. Harvard repeated as Ivy League champs in 1998 (when they set a school record with 36 wins and were ranked 24th nationally at year's end) and 1999. Walsh reached 500 career wins in April 2007. He was 350-387-2 at Harvard before dying suddenly in July 2012, of a presumed heart attack.

Sources: Harvard bio Tributes