Induction: Graduation: Sport:

2012 1943 Football | Basketball | Baseball

Crater was Wake Forest’s head baseball coach for 12 seasons starting in 1976. He guided the Deacons to the 1977 ACC baseball championship and compiled a career coaching record of 272-209-3 and was the ACC Coach of the Year in 1982. A graduate of R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, he played in the New York Yankees farm system and was at one point a roommate with Hall of Famer Yogi Berra. His baseball career was interrupted by World War II where he served as a PFC Medical Adman but also played baseball for the 10th Replacement Depot at Litchfield, near Birmingham, England, a team that clinched championships in 1944 and 1945. Skip wound up playing nine seasons in the Yankee system and became a manager before returning to Winston-Salem as a member of the police department. He served the community for 26 years before retiring as Sergeant Crater. Coach Crater was honored with the Winston-Salem/Bill Slack Community Service Award in 1999.