Coach Winkin - Prayers

Here's a link to a newspaper article on Coach Winkin. Let's keep him in our prayers.

http://bangornews.com/news/t/sports.aspx?articleid=157611&zoneid=501

All our prayers for a full & speedy recovery for Coach Winkin.

I was a student at UMO during the real heydays of his tenure. Four consectutive years in CWS with some great teams that produced a lot of player that played minor league ball and a acouple of major leaguers in Joe Johnson And Billy Swift.

Get Well Soon Coach!

Another link The previous link didn't work when I tried it.

Dr. Winkin (Wink as the players called him behind his back) is a character. He's passionate about the game. What can you say about a guy who wrote his doctoral thesis on the double play? I loved hearing Wink stories from my summer teammates who played for him. I had the opportunity to meet him during summer ball. He'd approach anyone he thought he could impart advice. He loved the game that much.

My thoughts and prayers are with his family.

He took over at Husson after my current College Coach left.

Any word on Coach Winkin's condition?

update

When you want to look for updates search on the wcsh6.com site.

Thanks RJM!

Prayers for Coach Winkin and his family. It sounds like he's touched many lives.

My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.

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It sounds like he's touched many lives.

Here's some scope. Here's some of the family tree and the trickle down of knowledge and experience. I believe O'Sullivan (Florida) and Corbin (Vanderbilt) coached under Jack Leggett at Clemson. There are a couple more I can't think of at the moment. Leggett played for Winkin. Ed Flaherty, one of the most successful and respected D3 coaches (College Baseball Hall of Fame) in the country at Southern Maine played for Winkin. Several who played for Flaherty have become successful high school coaches. Flaherty has turned down D1 jobs so he wouldn't have to move his family. Mike D'Andrea, a very successful high school coach played for Winkin. He's the best high school coach in Maine. He's placed lots of his players in D1 and other college programs. That never used to happen in Maine on a regular basis. Right now two are playing in the SEC. There are other players who learned under Winkin and went into coaching. These three just came to mind. With just these three examples, look at all the baseball players who ultimately benefitted from the original inspiration.

When John Winkin passes there better be a large arena available for the funeral. It will be SRO. And when he gets to Saint Peter at the pearly gates, Saint Peter better have his hands in the right position to open the gate or Wink will point it out to him. The man is a intense, perfectionist. His players benefitted.