Jack Baer (October 29, 1914 – March 9, 2002) was the head baseball coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1942 until 1967. During his tenure, Oklahoma won one national championship, made five NCAA Tournament appearances and won 6 conference titles.
Baer's Oklahoma team won the 1951 College World Series.
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“Wild Bill was indulging in his favorite pastime of a friendly game of cards in the old No. 10 saloon. For the second time in his career, he was sitting with his back to an open door. Jack McCall walked in, shot him through the back of the head, and rushed from the place, only to be captured shortly afterward. Wild Bill’s dead hand held aces and eights, and from that time on this has been known in the West as “the dead man’s hand.””
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