Education
He attended Sarasota High School, and played high school baseball for the Sarasota Sailors.
He attended Sarasota High School, and played high school baseball for the Sarasota Sailors.
He played college baseball for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Minnesota Twins, California Angels and Baltimore Orioles of MLB.
Doug Corbett was born in Sarasota, Florida in 1952. Corbett accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Dave Fuller"s Florida Gators baseball team from 1971 to 1974. He was a recognized as a first-team All-Southeastern Conference selection as a pitcher in 1974.
Corbett graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor"s degree in exercise and sport science in 1974, and was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 1996.
The following year, he was elected to the American League All-Star team