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Posted on 7/27/14 at 5:32 am
Posted on 7/27/14 at 5:32 am
We finally have a HOFer from the SEC!
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Posted on 7/27/14 at 5:42 am to parkjas2001
Posted on 7/27/14 at 5:47 am to parkjas2001
The Big Hurt was always one of my favorites! 
Posted on 7/27/14 at 6:39 am to parkjas2001
Posted on 7/27/14 at 6:50 am to parkjas2001
Well deserved!
Posted on 7/27/14 at 7:05 am to parkjas2001
He was one of the top 5 hitters in the 90’s. I was always a huge fan growing up, but then my dad told me he went to Auburn. By then it was too late to hate him.
Can you imagine if he took steroids? Holy hell. Great player, and he did everything the right way.
Can you imagine if he took steroids? Holy hell. Great player, and he did everything the right way.
Posted on 7/27/14 at 8:57 am to parkjas2001
Good article on al.com about his college career.
Cliffs:
6 players from AL were drafted by MLB Frank's senior year of highschool. He thought he would be drafted and was crushed when he wasn't.
Dye told him AU would give him a football scholly and he could do both, just like Bo was in his senior year at AU.
Frank was a hell of a TE and contributed with several catches and playing as a true freshman on the 10-2 1986 AU team.
The next year Dye spoke to AUs baseball coach and asked him how good Frank was at baseball. Coach told Dye he was the best he had ever seen and a first round mlb talent.
Dye then told Frank he should just concentrate on baseball and Dye would let him stay on the football scholly and just play baseball if he wanted.
Frank proceeded to rewrite the AU record book winning consecutive team triple crown awards.
Cliffs:
6 players from AL were drafted by MLB Frank's senior year of highschool. He thought he would be drafted and was crushed when he wasn't.
Dye told him AU would give him a football scholly and he could do both, just like Bo was in his senior year at AU.
Frank was a hell of a TE and contributed with several catches and playing as a true freshman on the 10-2 1986 AU team.
The next year Dye spoke to AUs baseball coach and asked him how good Frank was at baseball. Coach told Dye he was the best he had ever seen and a first round mlb talent.
Dye then told Frank he should just concentrate on baseball and Dye would let him stay on the football scholly and just play baseball if he wanted.
Frank proceeded to rewrite the AU record book winning consecutive team triple crown awards.
Posted on 7/27/14 at 9:27 am to Tiger n Miami AU83
Surprising he is the first from the SEC. steroids allowed other players to grab the headlines.
Posted on 7/27/14 at 9:38 am to allin2010
He isn't the first from a current SEC school, but the first in the SEC era. Nice jab.
Posted on 7/27/14 at 10:07 am to parkjas2001
What is the % of hall of flamers that went to college? Any college?
Posted on 7/27/14 at 10:15 am to East Coast Band
Posted on 7/27/14 at 10:17 am to Tiger n Miami AU83
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6 players from AL were drafted by MLB Frank's senior year of high school. He thought he would be drafted and was crushed when he wasn't
How many were drafted from Georgia that year, since Frank grew up and played high school ball in Columbus?
Congratulations to the Big Hurt, though.
This post was edited on 7/27/14 at 10:21 am
Posted on 7/27/14 at 10:55 am to CapstoneGrad06
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He isn't the first from a current SEC school, but the first in the SEC era. Nice jab.
It had been in many articles that the Big Hurt from Auburn is the first from the SEC. I wasted my time and tried to find the player of whom you speak. Alabama has two players in the college HOF (Sewell and Magadin)
ETA: Sewell played football at Bama and was inducted into Baseball HOF
This post was edited on 7/27/14 at 2:14 pm
Posted on 7/27/14 at 11:05 am to allin2010
If Frank juiced he would have been the Home Run King
Posted on 7/27/14 at 11:09 am to allin2010
Joe Sewell was both a player and coach at Alabama. And is in both the college and MLB hall of fame. He played for the Indians and Yankees, being inducted into the baseball hall of fame in 1977.
Posted on 7/27/14 at 11:10 am to diretiger
Alabama's Joe Sewell was elected to the Hall in 1977.
Posted on 7/27/14 at 11:16 am to parkjas2001
The Big Hurt was one of my favorite players growing up. Well deserved
Posted on 7/27/14 at 11:17 am to ErnestTBassmaster
So what other baseball players from the Southern Conference are in the HOF?
Posted on 7/27/14 at 11:21 am to MrAUTigers
To be fair, Sewell was Alabama's head baseball coach throughout the 1960s.
Posted on 7/27/14 at 12:19 pm to ErnestTBassmaster
The Braves passed on Frank Thomas in the 1989 MLB Draft to take...
Tyler Houston.
Tyler Houston.
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