MEDFORD - Barry Rosen, an assistant baseball coach at Tufts since 2019, is being inducted into the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA) Hall of Fame today.
A veteran baseball man who has over 50 years of coaching experience, Coach Rosen is part of the NEIBA's Hall of Fame Class of 2020 which did not have an induction ceremony due to COVID-19. He and his 2020 Hall of Fame classmates along with the NEIBA Hall of Fame Class of 2021 will be honored prior to the start of today's 46th Annual NEIBA Joe Walsh All-Star Game at Dunkin Stadium in Hartford, Conn.
Coaching corner infielders, Rosen's first season at Tufts was 2019 when the team won the conference championship. First baseman Peter DeMaria and third baseman J.P. Knight earned New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) All-Conference recognition under his tutelage. In 2020 he was part of the Jumbo staff that helped direct the team to the NESCAC Championship series and the NCAA Regional final. This spring DeMaria was the top first baseman in the region according to the all-star voting.
Rosen has 23 years of experience as a college head coach, 20 years as a high school head coach and nine years as a college assistant. Previously the head coach at Division II Saint Anselm College and Merrimack College, he is the all-time leader in coaching victories at St. Anselm with 167. At Merrimack, his teams captured six regular-season conference championships, two conference tournament titles, one ECAC Championship and competed in two NCAA Regionals.
Past President and Executive Board member of the NEIBA, Coach Rosen in 2018 received the organization's Andy Baylock Distinguished Service Award given to a person who has significantly contributed to the betterment of New England college baseball.
A 1972 graduate of UMass Amherst, Rosen taught high school science for 35 years in Winthrop and Westford. He was head coach at Winthrop High School from 1976-92, and was named to the Massachusetts Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
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