Robert Keith Kessinger is a former Major League Baseball

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 player who played 11 games for the Cincinnati Reds

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 in 1993. He was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles

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 in the 36th round of the 1989 amateur draft and the Reds purchased his contract in 1991. His ML debut came on September 15, 1993 against the Atlanta Braves

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. Kessinger went 1 for 2 in the game. http://www.baseball-reference.com/k/kessike01.shtml

Kessigner was the head baseball coach at Arkansas State University

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 from July, 2002 to June, 2008, compiling a 148-178 record. He spent the two years prior to that as head coach at Carson-Newman College

Carson-Newman College

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 where he compiled a 66-47 record. He also served as an assistant baseball coach at the University of Mississippi

University of Mississippi

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 for four seasons, where he had previously been a second-team All SEC shortstop.

Keith's father, Don Kessinger

Don Kessinger

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, was a former major league baseball player and a six-time all-star

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Career statistics

G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	AVG
11	27	4	7	1	3	.259

See also