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■ College coach, former UNO pitcher Callahan dead at 52 (neworleans.com)

Southern Illinois University baseball coach Dan Callahan, who was part of a long list of coaches and managers-to-be at the University of New Orleans in the late 1970s, died Monday after a long battle with a rare form of skin cancer. He was 52.

In 21 years as a college head coach, Callahan won 595 games. He is one of five coaches in Missouri Valley Conference history with 200 league victories. As he continued on the job while battling cancer last fall, Callahan received the MVC Most Courageous Award.

Callahan pitched at UNO under Ron Maestri in an era that produced new Chicago Cubs manager Mike Quade, Cubs assistant general manager and former UNO coach Randy Bush, LSU coach Paul Mainieri and Missouri coach Tim Jamieson.