He was a star athlete at Richard Montgomery High School, earning letters in baseball, football, basketball, and track.

He was All-State in football, led the school's basketball team to the state finals his senior year, and in baseball he excelled as both a pitcher and a hitter.

His two-run homer came in game 2 at Yankee Stadium in the fourth inning off starting pitcher Ralph Terry in a 6-2 Reds' win, their only one of the series.

[4] After his playing career ended, beginning in 1968, Coleman worked for many years in public relations for the Cincinnati Reds as director of the team's speakers bureau, making hundreds of appearances speaking at civic and other organizations' events.

[7] The city of his birth, Rockville, Maryland, declared July 5, 2008, (what would have been his 74th birthday) Gordy Coleman Day after a group of Richard Montgomery High School alumni sought to raise funds for a new baseball field scoreboard and plaque commemorating Coleman's life and to name the field in his honor.