Harold George Jeffcoat
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Harold George Jeffcoat (born September 3, 1947) is the former president of Texas Wesleyan University and Millikin University and a former professional baseball player.[1]
Jeffcoat was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1947, the first child of professional baseball player Hal Jeffcoat and his wife Valma.[2] Raised mainly in Tampa, Florida, he graduated from T.R. Robinson High School where he earned All-State honors as a quarterback and punter, and All-American in baseball. Drafted in the fourth round in the 1965 major league draft by the San Francisco Giants,[3] he played in the minor leagues for ten years before retiring and returning to college to pursue a second career as a scholar and administrator.