Robinson High School where he earned All-State honors as a quarterback and punter, and All-American in baseball.
Drafted in the fourth round in the 1965 major league draft by the San Francisco Giants,[3] he played in the minor leagues for ten years before retiring and returning to college to pursue a second career as a scholar and administrator.
[4] At the University of Missouri, Jeffcoat won grant support to create The European Union Center, an academic resource to study economic and agricultural issues in the European Union, serving as the Center's founding Director.
[5] In 2013 he joined the firm of Benz, Whaley and Flessner as Of counsel and retired from professional life in 2015.
Jeffcoat now resides in summer in Halsnøy, Norway and winters in Kissimmee, Florida.