Bob R. Sloan coached the Buff baseball team from 1968-1972, while the Buffs were a member of the Division I Missouri Valley Conference. He compiled a 93-51 record and team finished third in the MVC tournament in 1972.
He played centerfield for Oklahoma State in the late 1950's, and then played three years in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization from 1960-62. Sloan received his degree from OSU in 1966.
He coached at Guthrie, Okla., High School from 1963-65, winning the state championship in 1964. During his next two years at Goddard High in Roswell, N.M., Sloan's 1967 team reached the Class AA finals.
After WT dropped the baseball program in 1972, Sloan scouted part-time for the Dodgers, Chicago White Sox and California Angels. He was a fulltime scout with the Milwaukee Brewers from 1992-99, while living in Amarillo.
Among his former WT players who signed professional baseball contracts were Lanny Phillips, who played in the Boston Red Sox organization for nine years and Kim Henderson, who toiled in the San Francisco Giants organization for three years.
He also served as Athletic Coordinator for the Canyon Independent School District and was also a teacher and principal at Canyon High and Ascension Academy.
