Dr. Gary Grimaldi, Assistant Baseball Coach
Pittsburg State University

    Dr. Gary “Doc” Grimaldi is serving in his second stint as an assistant coach with the Pittsburg State University baseball program. Grimaldi, who previously served as an assistant for the Gorillas between 1994-2000, serves as Pitt State’s infield coach.
    He rejoined the Pitt State program in 2006 after spending five seasons as head baseball coach at Pittsburg High School, where he compiled a 77-34 (.694) overall record, leading the Purple Dragons to a SEK League title (2004) and a pair of berth into the Kansas Class 5A state tournament, including a third-place state finish in 2004.
    Grimaldi was a four-year letterman and a three-year starter at second base at Pittsburg State from 1968-71. He and PSU head coach Steve Bever were teammates during the 1968 and 1969 seasons.
    Grimaldi graduated from Pittsburg State University in 1971 with a bachelor of science degree in biology. He then earned his medical doctorate degree from the University of Kansas Medical School in 1974. After 12 years of private medical practice, Grimaldi returned to PSU in January of 1990 to assume the position of medical director/physician of the PSU Student Health Center, a position he maintained until December 2003. Since then, he has been in private practice in obstetrics/gynecology.
    Gary and his wife, Debbie, have five children: Abbey, 31, Abi, 30, Gabe, 28, Will, 27, and Nate, 13, and three grandchildren: Will, 3, Kate, 2, and Lia, six months.
    Debbie’s father, Al Ortolani, served as PSU’s head athletic trainer for 40 years (1956-95). He also was Pitt State’s first baeball coach, serving in that capacity for the program’s first 11 years (1962-72).