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Pat Rigby
- Class:
- Redshirt
Sport: Baseball (1960-1962)
Inducted: 2006
Hometown: Grand Prairie, TX First team All-American second baseman who led the 1962 Longhorns in hitting with a .371 average. He helped lead two teams (1961 and 1962) to the College World Series, posting a team-best 43 hits in each season in an era when a regular season consisted of only 24 games. He earned first team All-Southwest Conference honors at third base in 1961 and at second base in 1962. He played four years of professional baseball in the Chicago White Sox organization after college, then entered private business in the Dallas area. Rigby returned to baseball in 1989, serving as a volunteer coach at Dallas Baptist University before being hired by the Texas Rangers as a scout-a position he was holding at the time of his death in 1997. In 2003 he was inducted into the Texas Scouts Association Hall of Fame.
Inducted: 2006
Hometown: Grand Prairie, TX First team All-American second baseman who led the 1962 Longhorns in hitting with a .371 average. He helped lead two teams (1961 and 1962) to the College World Series, posting a team-best 43 hits in each season in an era when a regular season consisted of only 24 games. He earned first team All-Southwest Conference honors at third base in 1961 and at second base in 1962. He played four years of professional baseball in the Chicago White Sox organization after college, then entered private business in the Dallas area. Rigby returned to baseball in 1989, serving as a volunteer coach at Dallas Baptist University before being hired by the Texas Rangers as a scout-a position he was holding at the time of his death in 1997. In 2003 he was inducted into the Texas Scouts Association Hall of Fame.
