Topic: Marshall Baseball Coach Jack Cook Passes at 95

[GoHerd35]

https://www.herald-dispatch.com/sports/beloved-marshall-baseball-coach-jack-cook-dead-at-95/article_07b8c3d0-5a6c-573c-8c8d-7aac46714257.html

 :'(

[svherd]

Sad to hear. Great coach, great person.

[Flat Tire 2]

He also coached the HHS Pony Express to three WV state high school championships in 1961; 1964 and 1966. I was at the 1961 state championship that was played at Walt Powell Park in Charleston and I believed HHS beat Beckley for the championship. Jack also was the football and basketball coach at Cammack Junior High for many years where he was very successful.

 I also read where Jimmy Walker passed  a few days ago. Jimmy was a member of the 1966 championship team. Jimmy was wounded while serving in Vietnam and lost his eyesight.

Here is a link to some information from the MU HOF.
https://herdzone.com/honors/marshall-athletics-hall-of-fame/jack-cook/33

[Buffalo Bop]

https://twitter.com/sportsturtle11/status/1463577925018689539?s=20

Sad news. RIP Jack

[Gaylen]

Truely a sad day. Jack Cook was Marshall.

[Buffalo Bop]

https://twitter.com/jeffgoherd/status/1463586635040309260?s=20

[The E-Man]

Coach Cook is a true Herd legend and his legacy will be remembered forever! I played baseball with coach Cook son Chip and I've always had great respect for him. Coach Cook will be sadly missed! and is now reunited with his late son Chip... RIP coach!

[The Right Stuff]

So sorry to hear this.  He was a true Herd legend.  I went to his baseball camp in probably around 1962.  He was a super person and a great teacher of the game. :(

TRS
MU 71

[MicDrass1]

RIP Coach

[MUther]

He also coached the HHS Pony Express to three WV state high school championships in 1961; 1964 and 1966. I was at the 1961 state championship that was played at Walt Powell Park in Charleston and I believed HHS beat Beckley for the championship. Jack also was the football and basketball coach at Cammack Junior High for many years where he was very successful.

 I also read where Jimmy Walker passed  a few days ago. Jimmy was a member of the 1966 championship team. Jimmy was wounded while serving in Vietnam and lost his eyesight.

Here is a link to some information from the MU HOF.
https://herdzone.com/honors/marshall-athletics-hall-of-fame/jack-cook/33

Jimmy lived right down the street from me when I was growing up.  My mom went to high school with him and used to visit him fairly often.  She always said what a great athlete he was.  It was hard, as a kid, to reconcile that with the blind man I always saw.  Sad that he has passed.  Sadder still that he was blinded on his first patrol after getting to Viet Nam by a sniper.  Never really had a chance.  But he was married and had a pretty full life and would be 73 I believe as he was a year younger than my mom is.

[MUPE84]

Coach Cook was my Physical Education adviser when I started at Marshall in the fall of 1978.  Really nice guy.  Years later I was teaching Elementary PE and he would come through the gym and say hi on his way to the school kitchen to deliver his home grown tomatoes. Prayers to the family

[Always THE HERD]

He taught me phys. ed. in 69 at MU. He was a nice man as best I remember.

[coalherd]

Coach Cook is a true Herd legend and his legacy will be remembered forever! I played baseball with coach Cook son Chip and I've always had great respect for him. Coach Cook will be missed! Coach Cook is now reunited with his late son Chip... RIP coach!

Thank goodness that Coach Cook was able to witness the "groundbreaking", such as it was, of the Stadium that had been promised him decades ago and talked to death by MU administrators, Athletic Directors, and Huntington City Officials for so long.

Further hope that Coach's memory isn't disrespected by further delay of years, decades (?), etc., and that in the not too distant future we will his name in some manner on a quality baseball facility IN Huntington and NEAR MU!

RIP, Coach Cook!

[MUther]

He taught me phys. ed. in 69 at MU. He was a nice man as best I remember.

Geez, I was born that year you old fart

[coalherd]

Geez, I was born that year you old fart

Geeze, and Double Geeze, you young whipper snapper!  I was already graduated from MU and out in the "real world", a couple of years before that!  ;D