In 1938, Lula and Eugene Deffenbaugh traveled from Cedarville to Van Buren every Saturday with their son, Edwin Cliff Deffenbaugh.Years later, Ed Deffenbaugh became a legendary high school baseball coach in Texas.
They're the same person.
"In Texas, I was always known as ‘Ed,' but around family I'm ‘Cliff,'" Deffenbaugh, 80, said. "I was named for one of my uncles, Cliff Deffenbaugh."
A baseball coach in Texas for 41 years, including 35 as a head coach, Deffenbaugh was inducted into the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame on Jan. 14. He coached at four high schools - Houston St. Pius X, Crockett, Marshall and Channelview - from 1959-2001.
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