Pat Doyle | |
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Coach | |
Born: Santa Monica, California |
April 15, 1944
Pat Doyle (born April 15, 1944) is a baseball coach. He coached third base for Team Israel at the 2017 World Baseball Classic in March 2017 in South Korea and Japan.
Doyle was born in Santa Monica, California, and is a native of West Los Angeles, California. He played baseball at University High School in West Los Angeles.
Doyle and his wife, Harriet, live in Morada, California. They have three children (Amy Gad, married to Zaki, Kerry, and Tim), and a grandchild.
He played baseball at Los Angeles Valley College as a pitcher for the Monarchs. He was then a scholarship player at Fresno State from 1964 to 1966 (B.A.; Social Science; January 1967). A right-handed pitcher for the Fresno State Bulldogs baseball team, he holds the school record for the second-lowest season ERA at 1.31, with a 7-0 record at Fresno State in his junior year.
He received an M.A. in Health and Safety Studies from CSU Sacramento in 1982.
Doyle was a minor league pitcher in the Boston Red Sox organization in 1966-67. He then played seven years for the Lodi Guild Winemasters, a former semi-pro team.
Doyle started coaching at Lodi High School, coaching the freshman-sophomore baseball team and freshmen football team from 1969-72. He became the head coach of the baseball team at Tokay High School in Lodi when it opened in 1972, and the team won its first league title that year. He coached the Tigers until 1976, winning two titles in three years.