[2][3] After graduating from Lynchburg College in 1963, Babcock worked as a high school baseball coach in Colorado, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
JMU went 4–0 in the East Regional to reach the CWS, where it lost games to Texas and Stanford in Omaha.
Conference tournament champion After stepping down from the baseball coach position following the 1989 season, Babcock worked in JMU's athletic department.
[5][13][14][15] Babcock's son Whit is the athletic director at Virginia Tech; he previously held the same position at Cincinnati.
Whit was the batboy on the 1983 College World Series team and played for Babcock in 1989, his final season as JMU's head coach.