Daily News | Harry Booth, former St. Joseph’s baseball and basketball coach, dies at 82
A rare two-sport varsity head coach at St. Joseph’s, leading the baseball and later the men’s basketball team, Harry Booth died Monday at 82 after a short illness.
The Hawks’ baseball coach from 1965-74, Booth still holds the program record for career winning percentage . As basketball coach, Booth was in charge on Hawk Hill from 1974-78, compiling a 44-61 record.A 1962 graduate, Booth was a two-sport captain, starring on the baseball diamond and earning all-Middle Atlantic Conference honors twice as a center fielder. He led the Hawks in runs, extra-base hits, and stolen bases as a junior and a senior.
“South Philly tough — that’s who he was,” said former Villanova head coach Steve Lappas, who became close to Booth when they were assistants under Massimino and stayed close to him, getting together with their wives for dinner once a week for the past dozen years. “He was tough physically, mentally. In all the good ways.”Former Villanova head coach Steve Lappas, on Harry Booth
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