Chatt State Baseball Coach Greg Dennis Celebrates His 1,000th Career Victory

Chattanooga-(WDEF-TV) Chatt State baseball coach Greg Dennis notched his 1,000th career win Wednesday. Dennis has been winning ever since his high school days at Notre Dame where he captured a state championship.

One-thousand career wins. Yeah kind of hard to believe for Greg Dennis.
Said Dennis:”It kind of boggles my mind a little bit because a thousand. When you stop and think about it, that’s stacking up a lot of ballgames, much less a lot of wins.”
Even Dennis’ first paycheck as a baseball coach at McLennan Community College boggled his mind.
Said Dennis:”I think it was like $23,000. It was a mint to me. That was really my first full time job, and I taught six classes.”
Now Dennis simply enjoys teaching the game of baseball.
Dennis:”The are plenty of times where I think maybe it’s time to start thinking about doing something else, but I just know how badly I would miss and how much I love the sport. I think baseball is a game built around failure. You just have to get up and dust yourself off and get back out there. As a coach we do the same thing a lot.”
In college one year at Florida State, Dennis faced Bo Jackson.
Said Dennis:”I was playing third and Coach Martin kept telling me. Move up. Move up. And I was like that guy is really, really big. He was afraid he was going to bunt, and I told Coach Martin. I said look, I’ll do whatever you want me to do, but please, let’s just go ahead and play that guy to swing and not to bunt. I played against Kirby Puckett in his last college game. We beat them in Grand Junction in the JUCO World Series. I got the game winning hit in extra innings, and after that game he signed with the Twins.”
Reporter:”Do you feel like an institution now here at Chattanooga State?”
Said Dennis:”No. I felt like I ought to probably be in an institution to be honest with you. Institutionalized. No. I’m just a guy that loves where he’s at and loves his community., and wants to hopefully spread the gospel of baseball and also make hopefully better men.”