STATESBORO - The Georgia Southern Athletics Department is mourning the passing of Jack Stallings, who is still the winningest head coach in Eagle baseball history. Stallings was 87 years old.

Stallings served as the head coach of the Eagle baseball squad from 1976-99, posting an 859-582-5 record at Georgia Southern. He led the Eagles to 10 conference regular season titles and five conference tournament titles, helping the Eagles make their second College World Series appearance in 1990. Stallings coached 22 All-Americans at Georgia Southern and his No. 1 jersey was the first baseball number to be retired by the school. At Georgia Southern, he was named the TAAC Coach of the Year four times and Southern Conference Baseball Coach of the Year twice. He also held a faculty position as Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Georgia Southern.

Stallings was also the head coach at Wake Forest and Florida State, winning over 1,200 career games, and was an active international ambassador for the game of baseball, working the 1984 (hitting coach), 1988 (administrator) and 1992 (IBA representative) Olympic Games while conducting countless clinics all over the globe.

The field at J.I. Clements Stadium was named after Stallings on Feb. 19, 2005 and he was inducted into the Georgia Southern Athletics Hall of Fame in 2004.