Legendary statistician Burt Beagle has been a major presence at men's basketball games for Baruch College.
Prior to the start of the 2006-07 season, Beagle carried a streak of working 930 consecutive games as a statistician for both home and road games for the Baruch Bearcats men’s basketball team since 1969.
That streak unfortunately came to an end of Tuesday, November 21, 2006, in a home game against Yeshiva University. Due to health problems, Beagle was unable to make the trip from his home in the Bronx to lower Manhattan to work the annual game between both schools.
As a result, in a sight not seen in more than 30 years, Baruch team manager Joe Cafarelli took over the stats duties for Baruch.
The streak started right around the time when the New York Jets won Superbowl III, Richard Nixon succeeded Lyndon B. Johnson as President of the United States, and it only cost 20 cents to ride the New York City subway.
Beagle's dedication has been written up over the years in every media outlet, including the New York dailies the Times, Post, Newsday, Daily News, Staten Island Advance, and Faces in the Crowd with Sports Illustrated.
The retired accountant and former Sports Information Director was inducted on March 25, 2006, to the New York State Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame in Glen Falls, New York, as a contributor to the game.
He has been the Catholic High School Athletic Association's Media Relations Director for more than 30 years, and was inducted into their Hall of Fame. Burt was also honored in 2002 by the Met Writers Basketball Association at their Annual Haggerty Awards Dinner.
Burt helped re-start Baruch's baseball program in the fall of 1969 (team formerly played as CCNY), and served most recently as Associate Head Coach for the team.
Beagle, a lifelong resident of the Bronx, attended Baruch when it was the business school of the City College of New York. An Accounting major, he graduated in 1956 with a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree.
As an undergraduate student at Baruch, he was President of the Intramural Board and Sports Editor of the Ticker, the school newspaper.
He later became editor & chief of the evening school newspaper, The Reporter, and was named to Who's Who in American Colleges & Universities.
Beagle was drafted into the army and served for two years, but returned in 1959 and has been
involved in Baruch's athletic program since.