Heart Attack Sidelines Irvine Baseball Coach Flint

Irvine High School baseball Coach Bob Flint, The Times’ Orange County coach of the year this season, suffered a heart attack 10 days ago and has been instructed by his physician not to coach the remainder of the summer.

Flint, who led Irvine to the Southern Section 4-A championship game, experienced chest pains while coaching his youth baseball camp at Irvine and asked football assistant Bob Neal to take him to an emergency room.

Flint spent five days at Western Medical Center in Santa Ana where doctors concluded he had suffered a mild heart attack.

“I can’t drive for three weeks or coach for six weeks, but I walked out of the hospital upright, and I’m thankful for that,” Flint said.