PSU Magazine Fall 1994

searc epe game t's unlikely that the rag-tag team of players that baseball coach Jack Dunn fielded at Portland's Civic Stadium one evening last year wou ld ever contend for a league championship, let alone a winning season. Dunn's athletes whiffed at bad pitches, missed signs and made bone-headed fielding plays. They lost 17-3. It should be noted that the e player were a group of middle-aged, Portland area lawyers. They were competing against a group of local, middle-aged doctors and bankers in a charity softball game for Portland's Fruit & Flower Child Care Center. Dunn has reason to smile about uch events. The garrulous, popular Dunn, who retired as Portland State Univer– sity's head baseball coach in May after 20 seasons, has built his reputation on fielding well-prepared, well-instructed teams. In fact he has never had a lo ing sea on during his two decades as Vikings coach. His fina l PSU record: 630-439. Jack Dunn mu t have been doing something right all those years. Talk to Dunn in his office, and it isn't long before he's out of his chair demonstrating the correct ba ics of pitching form ("pivot, balance, bend your legs...") or hitting. 6 PSU Magazine Affectionately known as 'the helicopter,' baseball coach Jack Dunn has retired after two decades of winning seasons. By Brian White