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Coach Pride played for six Major League Baseball teams during his career including the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Angels, Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos and Atlanta Braves. Pride, who has been profoundly deaf from birth, batted .250 and hit 20 home runs and knocked in 82 RBIs in 421 major-league games. His best season was 1996 with Detroit when he hit .300 with 10 home runs and 11 stolen bases. During his career, Coach Pride has also hit home runs in old Yankee Stadium for the New York Yankees and Fenway Park for the Boston Red Sox. In fact, he hit a home run in his first at-bat for the Red Sox, becoming the seventh player in Red Sox history to do so. In 1998, he hit .252 in 70 games as the Braves advanced to the National League playoffs. Coach Pride finished his Major League Baseball career playing with the Angels in 2004, '05 and '06.
Coach Pride is a strong believer in the importance of a college education. He graduated from the College of William and Mary with a degree in finance. He was a four-year starter for the W&M basketball team where he played point guard. He earned a basketball scholarship to attend William & Mary.
During his Major League Baseball career, Coach Pride has played for some of the top managers in the major leagues including Mike Scioscia (Los Angeles Angels), Joe Torre (New York Yankees), Bobby Cox (Atlanta Braves) and Felipe Alou (Montreal Expos). Coach Pride says he learned something from each coach during his career and will use those lessons as his coaching model. Manager Bobby Cox had the biggest impression on Pride.
"Bobby was a great communicator," said Pride. "His players always wanted to play hard for him. I want my players to feel the same way about me."
While coaching at Gallaudet, Coach Pride looks forward to building a successful baseball program that produces outstanding student-athletes.
"I want to establish a winning tradition for the Gallaudet baseball program that will attract quality scholar-athletes who not only want to be a part of that tradition but also will represent the highest ideals and principles of Gallaudet at all-time," said Pride.
Pride resides in Wellington, Fla., with his wife Lisa and their two children; daughter Noelle and son Colten.
Coach Pride News
06/23/10 Gallaudet University baseball coach Curtis Pride
appointed to the President's Council for Fitness, Sports and
Nutrition
10/22/09 Coach Pride featured
in Washingtonian magazine
02/19/09 Bison win season
opener 10-8 in Coach Pride's debut
02/17/09 Curtis Pride
serves as guest Bison on Pink Zone night
01/13/09 Coach
Pride to be honored by NSCAA in St. Louis
12/03/08 Baseball
Coach Curtis Pride interviewed by Channel 8
11/03/08 Curtis
Pride hired as Gallaudet University baseball coach
Coach Rabouin returns for his second season on the Gallaudet University baseball staff as the pitching coach. Rabouin, who has been coaching since 1988, served as the pitching coach this past summer with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs. The Blue Crabs reached the Atlantic League Championship in '09 but lost to the Somerset Patriots in four games. For the past six seasons, Rabouin has served as the pitching coach on a Butch Hobson led staff. The pair won the Atlantic League championship with Nashua (N.H.) in 2000. Rabouin was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 26th round of the 1972 draft out of the University of Texas-Pan American. After two seasons in the Reds farm system he traveled to Mexico to play for several seasons. He returned to the states in 1979 and played for Bakersfield in California League, Single-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Overall, he played 14 seasons in Mexico at various levels from summer to winter ball leagues. In 1983, he recorded 235 strikeouts and posted a 19-8 record with six shutouts and one no-hitter.
His coaching stints include stops with various Major League Baseball affiliate teams such as the Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays and college stops with Howard University and Prince Georges Community College.
Rabouin resides in Camp Springs, Md.
Coach Fleet returns for his second year at Gallaudet University with the baseball program as an assistant coach. Fleet works with the Bison pitchers as he serves as the bullpen coach.
Before Gallaudet, Coach Fleet was an assistant coach for Prince George's Community College for 10 seasons from 1998-2007. He coached Youth Boys and Girls Club from 1990-96.
Fleet earned his bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1978. He was a pitcher for the Bison where he tossed back-to-back no-hitters one season. He attended Howard on a baseball scholarship. After college he was drafted by the Texas Rangers in 1978.
Fleet resides in Clinton, Md., and has two grown children in Gregory and Kachina.
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