"To have a statue in front of the stadium, who could ever imagine something like that?" Photo by Keith Warren The folks here are like family.
He was MSU and the SEC’s only Triple Crown winner before The two combined for 137 wins in their three years at MSU and won the SEC Championship and SEC Tournament Championship in 1985 with a trip to the CWS.
The new stadium is not only the new hangout for Bulldogs baseball fans, but a permanent home for a pair of MSU legends.
It's Thunder and Lightning. They said so themselves at the ceremony. I'm glad that you're here in Starkville on the baseball team." Palmeiro was also in elite company with Bonds, Michael Conforto (Oregon State), Clark still holds the second best batting average in a single season with his .420 mark in 1985 but his .391 career average from 1983-85 remains the tops in Bulldog history and he finished with 61 home runs which were second most in MSU history and his 199 RBI were good for eighth.Only once has the Bulldogs had a player win the Golden Spikes Award and that was Clark in 1985. Brantley remembers going to a grocery store on Highway 12 when he first got to Starkville for his freshman year. He's not as much of household a name as Clark or Palmeiro because he didn't have the flare of either of those guys. He is the all-time leader in home runs with 67 and his 239 RBI are second. Clark won the Golden Spikes Award in 1985 and was a two-time All-American. They said so themselves at the ceremony. Two of them, Bobby Thigpen and Jeff Brantley, became Relievers of the Year, while the other two, Will Clark and Rafael Palmeiro, formed the imposing one-two hitting punch known as "Thunder and Lightning."
"That's just the following you get from Mississippi State," Brantley said.Rafael Palmeiro and Will Clark talk prior to the game. Mississippi State fans saw those same poses after 128 combined home runs throughout the players' Mississippi State careers. Mississippi State played Youngstown State on Saturday, February 16, 2019.
His 268 hits were 10th in school history.
He played with Clark and Palmeiro at State in the mid-80s and had a lengthy career in the MLB that included a 1990 All-Star Game appearance. Clark walked to the microphone after Palmeiro. After college, they were drafted in the first round, Clark second and Palmerio 22nd overall, to the San Francisco Giants and Chicago Cubs respectively.Clark finished a six-time All-Star in the pros over 15 seasons with a two-time Silvere Slugger award, a Gold Glove Award and an NLCS MVP honor.
Granted, Palmeiro was lured to Mississippi State as a young Cuban-American growing up in Miami. Will Clark and Rafael Palmeiro were each in the running for the best at their position with the fans voting Clark as the greatest first baseman in college baseball history.
Clark won the Golden Spikes Award in 1985 … Will Clark and Rafael Palmeiro were each in the running for the best at their position with the fans voting Clark as the greatest first baseman in college baseball history. The two deserve the way they've been immortalized outside Mississippi State's $68 million stadium through iconic statues. The three best years of baseball both Clark and Palmeiro ever had were at Mississippi State. A random person approached him and said, "Hey Jeff. Being from Alabama, Brantley wondered how the stranger even knew his name. It says enough about the appeal and lore of Bulldog baseball to get a rising star like Palmeiro to Starkville, but he said there is now more of a draw than ever to wear the M-over-S.“If you’re a high school player coming to college, this is the place to be,” Palmeiro said.His coach for three seasons at Mississippi State, Ron Polk, agreed.
He spent 15 seasons in the MLB, 13 of which were with the San Francisco Giants and Texas Rangers. A statue? He was a four-time MLB All-Star, a three-time Gold Glove Winner and two-time Silver Slugger.Other SEC players on the list included LSU’s Ben McDonald as a right handed pitcher, © 2005-2020 CBS INTERACTIVE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
For us to be side-by-side in front of the stadium is really special.
Wherever (Palmeiro) goes, and wherever I go, it's a tag-team. It might have been the 1985 Mississippi State Bulldogs, who produced four Major League Baseball All-Stars.
Jeff Brantley was also included in the first Ring of Honor class, and he joined Clark and Palmeiro at Dudy Noble Field on Saturday to celebrate their inductions. He said there is nothing like it across the nation.
He played at the Ballpark in Arlington as a Texas Ranger and at Oriole Park at Camden Yards as a Baltimore Oriole within a few years of each stadium’s respective construction.Palmeiro knows what baseball clubhouses look like at the highest level. Brantley has more wins (45) than any other pitcher in Mississippi State history.
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