Missouri baseball alum Tony Vitello is making history.

Vitello, the Tennessee baseball coach for the past eight seasons and a national championship winner, has been named the next manager of the San Francisco Giants , making him the first sitting college head coach to be named the manager of an MLB franchise.

The news was reported by various outlets Wednesday, including the Knoxville News Sentinel and ESPN.

Vitello was an infielder for Missouri from 2000-02 under then-head coach Tim Jamieson, transferring to the Tigers from Division-II Spring Hill College. He is a St. Louis native and attended high school at De Smet.

After graduating, Vitello spent a season as a coach with the Salinas Packers in a summer collegiate baseball league before making the move back to Columbia to becom

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