Bio
Charlie Teague would become one of the greatest college baseball players to come out of Guilford County in North Carolina. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he entered Wake Forest University and became a star of the Demon Deacons’ baseball program.
He was a three-time All-Southern Conference second baseman, and earned first-team All-America honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association in all three of those years. He eventually finished with a career batting average of .335.
In 1949, Teague led the SoCon with a .353 average and played a key role in Wake Forest reaching the championship game of the College World Series. It remains the only time a Southern Conference team has ever reached the championship game.
Following his graduation, Teague played five years of minor league ball in the Chicago Cubs’ organization before spending one season as Wake’s head baseball coach. He eventually ran a successful sporting goods store in Greensboro for many years. Charlie Teague passed away in 1996 at the age of 74. He was posthumously inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010.