Former World Series champion takes head coaching job less than a year after his playing career ended.
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See the MLB star come back to his alma mater. A free agent during the 2017 baseball season, former World Series champion Coco Crisp is back in the game, but not as a major leaguer. Instead, Crisp will be the new head baseball coach at
Shadow Hills (Indio, Calif.) starting in the 2018 season.
A 15-year veteran of the Major Leagues, including a three-year stint with the Boston Red Sox in which he won a World Series championship in 2007, Crisp accepted the position after being offered the job. The new came according to Shadow Hills Athletic Director Blake Arthur, who announced the signing.
According to the Riverside Press-Enterprise, Crisp once lived nearby Rancho Mirage. He inherits a team that went 17-7 and was ousted in the first round of the Southern Section Division IV playoffs. Shadow Hills is just two years removed from an undefeated DeAnza League championship when it played at the Division V level.
Crisp is originally from the Los Angeles area, graduating from Inglewood High in 1998 and getting drafted out of Pierce Junior College (Woodland Hills) by the St. Louis Cardinals.
