Will Clark to be inducted into the MSHOF
Tickets are now on sale for the 46th Annual BancorpSouth Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Induction Banquet Friday August 1, 2008 at the Hilton Convention Center in Jackson, MS. Proceeds benefit the private non-profit Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame & Museum.
For ticket information, contact the Museum at 800-280-FAME (3263) or 601-982-8264. A reception starting at 5:30pm will precede the banquet at 7:00pm.
“A trademark of Museum events over the years has been to provide opportunities for the public to meet and talk with the people it honors,” said Museum Executive Director Michael Rubenstein. “The induction banquet will be no different. Everyone will be accessible.”
Mississippi State’s former national college player of the year and six-time MLB All-Star Will Clark is among the 2008 inductees. Clark, honored as college baseball’s player of the year with the 1985 Golden Spikes Award, earned all-America and All-Southeastern Conference team honors in 1984 and 1985 at MSU. He hit 61 home runs 175 games and compiled a school-record .391 career batting average, including a .420 batting average in 1985 when he helped lead State to a school-best third place finish in the NCAA College World Series.
The New Orleans, La., native was the second player selected in the opening round of Major League Baseball’s June draft in 1985 and went on to a 15-year professional career in Major League Baseball. Clark compiled a .303 batting average with 2,176 hits, 284 home runs and 1,205 RBI in 1,976 career games. He was a member of the inaugural induction class of the Collegiate Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.
Joining Clark in the 2008 class are current Belhaven and former USM head coach Hill Denson who posted 12 consecutive winning seasons in Hattiesburg; Coolidge Ball, the first African-American athlete at Ole Miss; Paul Covington, the winningest basketball coach in Jackson State University history; former Olympic gold medal-winner and SEC female athlete of the year Jennifer Gillom who played 17 professional basketball seasons; and USM’s Reggie Collier, the lone football honoree who became the first player in college history to run and pass for 1,000 yards each in the same season in 1981.
The honorees were selected by two separate thirteen-person committees comprised of representatives from all the state’s college and university athletic departments plus representatives from Mississippi sports associations and clubs as well as the media.
Via Athletic Media Relations
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