Ed Blankmeyer
Edward A. Blankmeyer is an American professional baseball coach and former second baseman. He was most recently the manager of the Brooklyn Cyclones of the New York–Penn League.
Career
Blankmeyer played college baseball at Seton [Hall University] from 1973 to 1976. He served as an assistant coach at Seton Hall before serving as the head baseball coach at St. John's [University (New York City)|St. John's University] from 1996 to 2019. Under Blankmeyer, St. John's won six Big East Conference Regular season Championships and five Big East Tournament championships. They appeared in ten NCAA Regionals and one NCAA Super Regional. Blankmeyer has received the Big East Conference's Big East Conference [Baseball Coach of the Year|top coaching award] eight times—six times as the head coach during the era in which the award was styled as "Coach of the Year" and presented solely to a head coach, and twice more under the award's current incarnation as the "Coaching Staff of the Year" award, presented to an entire staff. He has also received four ABCA Northeast Region Coach of the Year Awards.On January 6, 2020, Blankmeyer stepped down from St. John's and became the manager of the Brooklyn Cyclones. In 2022. he returned to the university as an adjunct associate professor.