John Cohen is the head baseball coach of Mississippi State. He played college baseball at Mississippi State after spending a single season at Birmingham Southern College in Alabama. He also played on the 1990 College World Series team his senior year at Mississippi State. He then spent two years in the Minnesota Twins farm system. He served as an assistant coach at the University of Missouri from 1992-97 before moving to Northwestern State University from 1998?2001, where he won two conference championships. He moved onto the University of Florida for two seasons as an assistant before accepting the head coaching job at the University of Kentucky. On June 6, 2008, Cohen was announced as the head coach of his alma mater, Mississippi State. Originally from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Cohen is one of a handful of Jewish college baseball coaches in the country, and one of two in the Southeastern Conference alongside legendary coach Skip Bertman at LSU. 

September 21st, 1966 in Tuscaloosa (Age 58)