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Sep 4, 2024 · Legendary former Rice head baseball coach Wayne Graham, one of the most decorated coaches in the history of college baseball, passed away at 88 this week. “Coach Graham was the greatest baseball coach on any level of baseball,” Former Rice assistant and Texas head coach David Pierce told D1Baseball. “He influenced, guided, and encouraged ...
Stanley Travis Rice Jr.[1] (November 7, 1942 – December 9, 2002) was an American poet and artist. He was the husband of author Anne Rice. Biography. Rice was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1942. He met his future wife Anne O'Brien in high school.
Wayne Leon Graham (April 6, 1936 – September 3, 2024) was an American baseball head coach of the Rice Owls in Houston, Texas. He coached one College World Series championship team and five NJCAA World Series championship teams.
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Conference membership
1. 1913: Independent 2. 1914–1996: Southwest Conference 3. 1997–2005: Western Athletic Conference 4. 2006–2023: Conference USA 5. 2024–present: American Athletic Conference
Southwest Conference
In 83 years of Southwest Conference play, Rice finished in the bottom half of the conference in 72 times. Rice finished in last place for 24 of those seasons. The highest Rice rankings in SWC regular season play were second-place finishes in 1984 and 1994.
The Wayne Graham Era
The modern era of Rice baseball began in 1992, when Wayne Graham, who had previously led San Jacinto College to five junior college championships, became head coach. Graham has coached 27 different players to All-America honors.In 1995, Rice finally broke through to make the first NCAA tournament appearance in school history--the first of 20 consecutive tournament appearances, including seven College World Series. A year later, Rice won the 1996 Southwest Conference baseball tournament, the f...
Reckling Park is the baseball stadium at Rice University in Houston, Texas, USA. It has a capacity of 5,368 and serves as the home field of the Rice Owls baseball team. The stadium was built on the site of Cameron Field, Rice's home from 1978–99, in time for the 2000 season.
Houston
Since their first meeting in 1948, Rice has played Houston 191 times. They have met for each of the past 37 seasons. Since 1998, the season-long series between these two teams has been known as the Silver Glove series. Through the 2021 season, Rice leads the all-time series against their cross-town rivals by a record of 108–83.
Texas
Rice first played Texas in 1915, the first year of the Southwest Conference. Rice went 0–4 that first year, starting a trend of lopsided season series that lasted for 40 years, including no wins against the Longhorns for 12 years. Rice finally won two consecutive season series in 1955 and '56, and again in 1972 and '73. The only other Rice season series win before Wayne Graham came to Rice was 1978. One notable win came in 1977, as Texas began the season with 34 consecutive wins, which was sn...
Rice has sent more than 20 players on to the major leagues. Most notable among these are All-Star pitcher Norm Charlton, Gold Glover José Cruz Jr., Perfect game pitcher Philip Humber of the Houston Astros, and five-time All-Star and Astros outfielder Lance Berkman. In 2004, Rice became the first school ever to have three players selected in the fir...
His coach was “the Ol’ Professor,” the legendary Casey Stengel. It’s a time now lost to the back of baseball cards and Ken Burns documentaries, but it was, ultimately, here where the godfather of Rice baseball earned his stripes and learned that, above all else, winning is sacrosanct.
Dickie Kerr of the Chicago White Sox, pictured in October 1919, coached Owls baseball in 1928 for less than three months. Photo by APA/Getty Images. In the annals of Rice baseball, dating back to 1913, only one of the school’s 20 head coaches failed to last an entire season.
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Sep 4, 2024 · Wayne Graham, the winningest coach in Rice history—and the only coach to lead the program to a national championship—has died. He was 88.
