Paul Blair (baseball) - Coaching Career

Coaching Career

At the end of his playing career Blair was hired as an outfield instructor for the Yankees in 1981. In August 1982 he was named the head coach at Fordham University. Blair only coached one season at Fordham with the team finishing with a 14-19 record. He would then go back to work as an outfield instructor with the Houston Astros and as a third base coach for the Orioles Triple A team in Rochester and worked in that capacity until 1985. In 1989 he would play for the Gold Coast Suns in the newly formed Senior Professional Baseball Association, though the league would fold after the season. Blair would get his next shot at coaching in 1995 when he was named the manager of the Yonkers Hoot Owls in the newly formed Northeast League, an independent league of professional baseball. The team would last just one season and would finish a dismal 12-52. Blair would get his next, and to date his last, shot at coaching in 1998 when he was named as the head coach for the Coppin State College baseball team. Blair would coach the team from 1998-2002. Unfortunately, his overall record at Coppin State would be a disappointing 30-185.