He was a pitcher for the Ohio State Buckeyes baseball team and captain of the 1955 team that won a Big Ten Conference championship in 1955.

From 1960 to 1964, he was an assistant football and basketball coach at Woodward High School in Toledo, Ohio.

In August 1964, he was hired as the head baseball coach at the University of Toledo.

In September 1969 he was hired as an assistant baseball coach at Ohio State.

[4] He stepped down as head baseball coach in June 1987 and was appointed special assistant to Ohio State athletic director Rick Bay.