Our Trainers
Ron Staggs
Hitting Instructor
Former East Carolina University first baseman of 4 years and captain of 3 years, All Southern Conference for 3 years, and All District Ill, Ron Staggs has also set 7 consecutive individual career hitting records at ECU. Ron won the batting title and MVP of the Shenandoah Valley League, hitting 417. In Ron’s senior year, he was selected as the Player of the Year at ECU and was selected by The Sporting News as All American First Baseman. Ron Staggs was drafted by the Montreal Expos In 1975 in the sixth round.
Ron’s knowledge of baseball goes back many years while learning the sport from his father. His father played for the Chicago White Sox and the House of David against Sagel Paige and the Harlem Globetrotters. Ron became a bat boy for his father’s baseball team in Dayton, Ohio which played against a 17 year old second baseman named Pete Rose.
While growing up In Dayton, Ohio Ron watched Mike Schmidt the ‘Hall of Famer”, and Steve Yeager the “LA Dodger Catcher” play high school baseball. Ron developed his own hitting style and dreamed of pursuing and achieving higher goals than both of his idols.
After pursuing a professional career, Ron’s love of the game led him to teach in Florida, Louisiana, Colorado, and a hitting coach at Greenville Pitt Community College for 2 years. Ron taught in Greenville for 9 years over total as an instructor for little league, college, and professional players. Ron then moved to New Bern, NC. In 2007, Ron is now employed by On Deck Sports Center as a professional hitting instructor.