Robert "Bob" Lee (1993) - Hall of Fame - Southwestern Athletic Conference

Hall of Fame

Background & Career Highlights

Bob Lee served as the head baseball coach at Southern University from 1949 to 1961 (13 seasons).
Under his leadership, the SU baseball team captured eight outright Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) titles and shared another.
He compiled an extraordinary winning percentage: 172–35 (.831) during his time at SU, which at the time was noted as the highest lifetime mark of any coach in the country with at least 10 years at a four-year institution.
In 1959, Lee guided SU to the NAIA national championship — which is notably the first and only baseball national championship won by a historically black college or university (HBCU) to date.
The following year in 1960, SU again reached the NAIA national tournament and finished third.
In 1961, Lee was named NAIA National Coach of the Year.
He was elected to the NAIA Hall of Fame in 1967.
He was inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2021.