Names in the News - Oct. 17, 1989

Clarence J. (Jake) Kline, whose teams earned 542 victories in his 42 seasons as Notre Dame’s baseball coach, died at the age of 94 Sunday at St. Joseph’s Medical Center. He had suffered a stroke on Oct. 5. In 1976, Notre Dame’s baseball field was named in his honor. A member of both the College Baseball Hall of Fame and the Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame, Kline was named Notre Dame’s head coach in 1934 and coached until the end of the 1975 season when he was 80.