Former Florida baseball coach Dave Fuller dies

Sep 16, 2009 - 5:02 PM GAINESVILLE, Fla.(AP) -- Dave Fuller, the winningest baseball coach in University of Florida history, has died. He was 94.

Fuller died Tuesday at North Florida Regional Hospital in Gainesville.

Fuller guided the Florida baseball program from 1948 to 1975, compiling a 557-354-6 record and winning three Southeastern Conference championships (1952, 1956, 1962).

He also was a member of the football staff for 29 years (1948-76), the longest run of any assistant coach in school history. Fuller served in many capacities as head freshman coach, varsity assistant, head scout and a key recruiter under head coaches Bob Woodruff, Ray Graves and Doug Dickey.