The most famous name in Cerritos College baseball has returned. Wally Kincaid, the patriarch of Falcon baseball, has joined the coaching staff this season as an assistant coach. As the first baseball coach in Cerritos history, Kincaid coached the team for 22 years and had an awe-inspiring 678-163 (.806) record, which included six state championships from 1958-77 and 1979-80. Whether it’s Major League Baseball, college baseball or high school baseball, you will be able to find someone who has either heard of Kincaid or played for him. The list of former players who have gone on to play professional baseball or gone on to coach is in the hundreds, while he revolutionized the game in a way that it’s still being played today.
    The list of honors and awards is endless, but they all led to Kincaid being named the National Community College Coach of the Century for the 1900’s by Baseball America Magazine. During his time with the Falcons, Kincaid won 15 conference championships, 51 tournament championships and recorded the only undefeated season in California Community College baseball history when he led his team to a 40-0 record in 1966. He almost matched their undefeated record by going 40-1 in 1970, while the team won three consecutive state championships from 1973-75.
    Several of his former players who went on to play professionally include Bob Apodaca (currently the Colorado Rockies pitching coach), Ed Hodge (currently a pitching coach in the Cincinnati Reds organization), Tom Nieto (who won a World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals), Mike Paul, Dan Boone, Larry See, Jim York, Ron Diggle, Jim Wilson and Mike Ash. Those who went on to coach at the collegiate level include George Horton (University of Oregon), Mike Weathers (Cal State Long Beach), Dave Snow (formerly Cal State Long Beach), Don Sneddon (Santa Ana College), as well as Gaylord.
    Since his retirement, Kincaid has served as an assistant for some of his former players, and during that time he helped lead Cal State Long Beach to three College World Series appearances, while he spent a year with Sneddon at Santa Ana. In addition to coaching baseball, Kincaid was also the first basketball coach in Cerritos history, while he served as an assistant football coach.