SU's Lou Brock to be Inducted into the college baseball hall of fame


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After a freshman season in which he hit .180, Lou Brock became the star of the Southern University baseball team that won the 1959 NAIA College World Series, becoming the first and only HBCU baseball team to win a national title at any level. That year, Brock his .524 for the season with five home runs, eight doubles and six triples.
http://web.collegebaseballhall.org/hall_of_famers.jsp
 
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PsychoJag said:
Long long overdue!!!!
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Exactly. Now he has the college HOF honor to go along with his Cooperstown enshrinement. Hall of Famer on both college and pro levels is definitely an achievement. Great guy as well.
 
Congrat SU and it's about time Lou was honored!

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So play the resurrector and give the dead some life

Okay, if knowledge is the key then just show me the lock
Got the scrawny legs but I move just like Lou Brock
With speed. I'm agile plus I'm worth your while
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buckwheat1911 said:
Congrat SU and it's about time Lou was honored!

You on point Tip?
All the time Phife
You on point Tip?
Yeah, all the time Phife
You on point Tip?
Yo, all the time Phife
So play the resurrector and give the dead some life

Okay, if knowledge is the key then just show me the light
Got the scrawny legs but I move just like Lou Brock
With speed. I'm agile plus I'm worth your while
One hundred percent intelligent black child

'A Tribe Called Quest'
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Light instead of lock :lol:
 



PsychoJag said:
I agree. And we can do it easily IMO.
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Lots of Black kids are passed over by the big schools because they are too raw and have not played at the highest level of amateur baseball in their area/state. If HBCU coaches got together to do touring clinics and help more coaching clinics on campus and invited the boys club coaches and black high school coaches, inroads could be made to get some of those raw gems to be developed.
 
FAMU CLIFF said:
Lots of Black kids are passed over by the big schools because they are too raw and have not played at the highest level of amateur baseball in their area/state. If HBCU coaches got together to do touring clinics and help more coaching clinics on campus and invited the boys club coaches and black high school coaches, inroads could be made to get some of those raw gems to be developed.
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Look out, because many Florida fans have jumped all over their baseball coach due to the lack of speed on the team. We all know what that means. lol
 
FAMU CLIFF said:
Lots of Black kids are passed over by the big schools because they are too raw and have not played at the highest level of amateur baseball in their area/state. If HBCU coaches got together to do touring clinics and help more coaching clinics on campus and invited the boys club coaches and black high school coaches, inroads could be made to get some of those raw gems to be developed.
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Because of the way the game is played now, they are recruiting black kids. In the late 90's and early 2000's they would have been @ SU :) . I remember A. Gray choose SU over Miss St and after his monster freshman season, Florida, Florida St. and Miami tried to get Rickie Weeks to transfer, at the time you didn't have to sit out. Mike Woods also choose SU over LSU.
 
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SUjagTILLiDIE said:
Because of the way the game is played now, they are recruiting black kids. In the late 90's and early 2000's they would have been @ SU :) . I remember A. Gray choose SU over Miss St and after his monster freshman season, Florida, Florida St. and Miami tried to get Rickie Weeks to transfer, at the time you didn't have to sit out. Mike Woods also choose SU over LSU.
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Dude when I was on the bluff I didn't miss a baseball game. Those games with Mike Woods, Weeks, Day, and ect were electric!!
 
PsychoJag said:
Dude when I was on the bluff I didn't miss a baseball game. Those games with Mike Woods, Weeks, Day, and ect were electric!!
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I didn't miss one either, he'll I dont miss one now :lol: , love some SWAC baseball. You forgot about Fred Lewis, dude could out run a deer :lol: . I swear SU's outfield could have won the 4x100 in the SWAC back then.
 
Time Out: Perryn Keys column for June 30
A worthy honor for Lou Brock

BY PERRYN KEYS
Advocate sportswriter
June 30, 2012
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By identifying with baseball, I first felt free and alive. I felt my spirit lifted.

—Lou Brock, 1985

Time and place.

Sometimes, life boils down to little more than that.

Other things matter, of course. If you possess talent, in many cases, you’ll catch a break. Work incredibly hard, and your odds increase.

Still, time and place are so very important.

Take, for example, the great Lou Brock.

Long before he stole 938 bases, collected 3,023 hits and became a baseball treasure in St. Louis, he was a poor kid who hitched a ride from Collinston, a tiny farm town in north Louisiana, to Southern University.

Even without a scholarship or food money, Brock was determined to stay there. He chased fly balls for the baseball team, attempting to show off his speed, all but begging for a walk-on spot — until, one day, his malnourished body faltered.
http://theadvocate.com/sports/southern/3227595-123/time-out-perryn-keys-column
 
SUjagTILLiDIE said:
I didn't miss one either, he'll I dont miss one now :lol: , love some SWAC baseball. You forgot about Fred Lewis, dude could out run a deer :lol: . I swear SU's outfield could have won the 4x100 in the SWAC back then.
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And that is why the power schools are going after them now. They need that speed to play small ball. You aren't going to win in Omaha with the HR anymore.
 
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