Carrillo, a throwback coach during baseball's golden age, dies
Gil Carrillo coached Rincon High School to the state baseball championship game in 1963, 1964 and 1968. The Tucson High grad, who played at the UA in the 1940s, was the equivalent of a first-ballot selection in the Pima County Sports Hall of Fame. Carrillo died here last week. He was a throwback to an era of high school baseball in Tucson that will likely never be matched. During Carrillo’s coaching prime, he was opposed by fellow Pima County Sports Hall of Fame coaches Bobby Hart, John Gleeson, Ray Adkins, Cliff Myrick and Jim Wing. Funeral services are pending.
