Over the summer, Joey Hawkins became the third head coach in Missouri State baseball history. It might seem inconceivable that a program that has played college baseball since 1964 could be on just its third coach, but that’s what happens when you have a head coach who was at the helm for 42 seasons, as was the case with Hawkins’ predecessor, Keith Guttin.
And what a career it was for Guttin. He began his tenure by guiding the Bears through their transition to Division I, a level at which they were immediate winners in the conference now known as the Summit[…]
