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LITTLE
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The Tigers first won the city pennant during the 1908/09 school year. The first State Championship came the next year during the 1909/10 school year. Other known State Championship years include 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920 and (the team above) 1921.
In the late 1800's and early 1900's the school only hired one head coach and one or two other coaches as assistants. The head football coach acted as athletic director and head coach for all male athletic teams. This coaching tradition ended around the mid to late 1930's. Early baseball (and football, basketball and track) coaches include: O.D. Longstreth, G.J. Van Buren, Floyd Wingo, J.G. Pipkin, and Earl Quigley.
The baseball teams that Earl Quigley coached had a record of 207 - 37. The best season record a Tiger team has had is Coach Quigley's 1920 team (34 -1), they also won the state championship that year. During Coach Quigley's tenure, the baseball teams won the State Championship 9 times before the school system dropped the sport in 1927.
The Little Rock School District allowed high schools to field baseball teams again during the 1990/91 school year.
The 1998-99 school year and baseball season was the first year that Coach Travis Mann headed the Tiger team. Coach Mann was also an assistant football coach for the Tigers under Coach Bernie Cox. Coach Mann's previous baseball experience included being a graduate assistant for Henderson State University. Coach Mann got out of coaching after the 1999 season.
Coach Mann's assistant coach, Frank Troutman, led the Tigers into the new millennium with a 13-13 record. In 2001, Coach Troutman and the Tigers entered the state's top ten at Number 6. This marked the first time in recent history that Little Rock Central had been ranked among the state's top ten teams in the sport of baseball. The Tigers ended the 2002 season with a Number 7 ranking and a 16-12 record. Coach Troutman finished his fourth season as head coach with a 64-46 record.
2003
TIGER BASEBALL (13-13)
2002
TIGER BASEBALL (16-12)
2001 TIGER BASEBALL (22-8)
2000 TIGER
BASEBALL (13-13)