The News-Gazette · Apr 14, 2019
Illini Legends, Lists and Lore: April 14, 2019
Gordon 'Gordie' Gillespie during his Illini playing days.It's a little known fact that of the three men who top college baseball's current all-time list of coaching victories, two have ties to the University of Illinois.
One of them is Augie Garrido, who coached Illini baseball for three seasons, racking up 1,975 wins in 48 collegiate seasons.
The second is a 1944 Illini baseball and basketball letterman named Gordie Gillespie. He ranks third on the NCAA's list behind longtime Florida State coach Mike Martin and Garrido. In 1993, he passed Southern California's Rod Dedeaux, to rank No. 1 on that ledger. Garrido passed Gillespie in 2014.