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For sure and often to the benefit of UM baseball.

Kurt Bevacqua and North Miami HS teammate Steve Carlton, Mike Piazza, Jaime Navarro, Mickey Rivers, Alex Fernandez (after UM), Jon Nunnally, Placido Polaco are a few others.

There was some really good baseball late 1970s and early 1980s in south Florida. My high school, Hialeah Miami Lakes HS, won state championships in 1979 and 1980, nearby Carol City in 1978. You also had Monsignor Pace who was very good at a lower classification plus Miami Springs had lots of...

I was taking some classes at Dade North during early 1980s and I caught a few games between Dade-North vs UM, who used to play each other during preseason and there was played each other on a level field. In fact, one of Dade-North's players Javier Velazquez later played on UM's National...

Between Greene, Deme Manieri at Miami Dade-North and the coach Miami Dade-Downtown (Hertz?), there were some really good baseball coaches in the area. It's a shame Miami-Dade CC athletics were eventually dwindled to one team per sport, especially since it fed UM baseball.