Stan Sanders

Stanley Sanders born as Stanley Cocciolone

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6'1", Weight 175 lbs.
• School University of Miami
• High School Miami Technical High School
• Born August 12, 1939 in Philadelphia, PA, USA
• Died July 23, 2021

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Biographical Information

Stan Sanders was a right-handed infielder who played for the Johnson City Phillies and Elmira Pioneers in 1960. Born Stanley Cocciolone in Philadelphia, PA, he moved to Miami as a child, took his mother's maiden name, Sanders, played at Miami Technical High School, served in the U.S. Army for three years after graduation, and later earned a bachelor's degree from University of Miami in 1965.

Sanders began his college coaching career as an assistant at Miami Dade College and the University of Miami in the early 1960s. [1] He was an assistant at Ohio University from 1966 to 1969, and during that period he helped recruit Mike Schmidt to Athens. He was head baseball coach at University of Toledo from 1970 to 1992, winning 534 games. In 1982, he took a 1-year leave of absence from Toledo and spent a year in the New York Yankees organization as a coach and scout.. Sanders had been offered the same job by the St. Louis Cardinals five years earlier and he had been granted a 1-year leave by Toledo to accept, but the NCAA declined to approve. He was again denied by the NCAA in 1982, but appealed the decision and was granted approval.

He was inducted into Toledo's Varsity T Hall of Fame in 1998, and he died on July 23, 2021.