Former CRHS Teacher honored by MLB and featured on Fox News
Former CRHS Teacher honored by MLB and featured on Fox News
Former Navy Captain Dick Tangeman relied on the resilience he learned playing baseball with Hall of Fame Yankees skipper Joe Torre.
Former Crystal River High School mathematics teacher, retired U.S. Navy Captain and former P.O.W. Richard Tangeman, who is better known to many of us as “Coach T”, was featured on Fox News. Tangeman spoke at length to his childhood classmate from Brooklyn, Hall of Fame New York Yankees Manager Joe Torre as MLB honored Tangeman.
Tangeman taught high school Calculus and College Algebra and Trigonometry and also coached four different sports to District and Regional Championships. He was also named Crystal River High School Teacher of the Year in 1998. In 2002 he retired but has continued on as a volunteer coach and tutor. (click here to read more about Capt. Tangeman)
Follow these links to see Fox News story: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/17/vietnam-pow-reconnects-with-hall-famer-joe-torre.html
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