James A. "Ike" Tomlinson (November 17, 1910 â March 9, 2000) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head baseball coach at Arkansas State University from 1947 to 1976, compiling a record of 363âÂÂ423âÂÂ7 and becoming the longest-tenured athletic coach at the school. The school's baseball facility, Tomlinson StadiumâÂÂKell Field, is named after him. Tomlinson was also the head football coach at Arkansas State for season in 1945, tallying a mark of 2âÂÂ4âÂÂ1, and school's head basketball coach from 1944 to 1949, amassing a record of 51âÂÂ69.