Just saw on Twitter.
Got to know him a little. Great guy. A baseball encyclopedia.
RIP to him and his family.
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Sad day in college baseball!
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He played baseball, coached baseball and built a career in the sport.
The sport was good to him and he was good to the sport.
The Field of Dreams is welcoming their new head coach.
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What a rare character and coach. I’m never a proponent of playing Rice but damn, he made college baseball fun in Houston. Made many trips to Reckling.
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He didn’t make it fun to play Rice. At least, not for me.
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Slowest walk to the mound ever and a member of my bobblehead collection… RIP Wayne.
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Good coach, great recruiter.
Nice article from last year: Five years later, Wayne Graham reflects on retirement, end of Rice tenure - The Rice Thresher
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He was a heck of a baseball coach, one of the best.
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Really sorry to see that Coach Graham passed away. We used to jokingly call him the human rain delay. No way of knowing, but I have often wondered what the University of Houston baseball program would look like today if we had hired Coach Graham instead of Noble.
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Great guy, great coach. Old Heights boy who once led Reagan to a state title in the early ‘50s
Great coach and hated playing against him. He brought some players into Rice.
When my boys were toddlers I went back to do postgrad work at UH and also took a night class at San Jac so we could enroll them in the San Jac daycare program. I’d sometimes pick my guys up and head across the parking lot to watch the Gators baseball team practice. After we’d been there a few times Coach Graham recognized us and he’d come over to chat my boys up. He had some ridiculous winning percentage at San Jac and was a multiple-time JC coach of the Year. You’d never have known it though. Just a down-to-earth guy, as nice as could be.
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