Taylor Sanford
| Sport(s) | Baseball |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born | c. 1907 |
| Died | August 8, 1966 Petersburg, Virginia |
| Alma mater | Richmond, 1929 |
| Playing career | |
| 1925–1929 | Richmond |
| Position(s) | First baseman |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Baseball | |
| 1929–1942 | Hargrave Military Academy |
| 1942–1949 | Randolph–Macon |
| 1951–1955 | Wake Forest |
| Football | |
| 1949–1953, 1955 | Wake Forest (assistant) |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1942–1949 | Randolph–Macon |
| 1959–1966 | Fort Lee |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1955 College World Series | |
| Awards | |
| ABCA Coach of the Year, 1955 | |
Taylor H. Sanford (c. 1907 – August 8, 1966) was an American baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head baseball coach at Randolph–Macon College from 1942 to 1949 and at Wake Forest University from 1951 to 1955. He led the Wake Forest Demon Deacons baseball team to the 1955 College World Series championship.
Sanford was born to Dr. and Mrs. T. Ryland Sanford in about 1907. He later attended Hargrave Military Academy where he was an all-state athlete in football, basketball and baseball. He then enrolled at the University of Richmond.
Sanford was captain of the Richmond Spiders football, basketball, and baseball teams, and set school records in the shotput and discus. He then played baseball professionally in the Bi-State and Piedmont leagues while also coaching prep and college teams. He ended his professional career in 1946, having never climbed higher than Class B.
He was listed as a scout for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball in 1948.
Sanford began his coaching career at Hargrave, coaching for thirteen years at the prep school. He became athletic director and coach of the baseball and basketball teams at Randolph–Macon. His teams won a total of five conference championships over his seven years in Ashland, Virginia, before moving to Wake Forest as freshman football coach. In his second year at Wake Forest, he added baseball to his coaching duties while continuing in various assistant coaching roles with the football team. Most notably, the Deacs won the Atlantic Coast Conference and College World Series in 1955.
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