As the saying goes, records are meant to be broken. But no Division II college baseball player has made a statement strong enough to remove Charles Stukes from the record books since 1967 (more on that later). Mr. Stukes was…
Ask any coach. When it comes to recruiting future Major League Baseball players, the process of battling other schools and convincing players to sign with you can be vicious. That wasn’t the case for Grambling’s Hall of Fame Head Coach…
When we caught up with Reggie Williams in late August, he was busy packing belongings and tying up affairs in Daytona Beach where he spent the summer as a coach with the Daytona Tortugas, Class A affiliate of the Cincinnati…
If you were looking for thunder in the lineup in early 1970s SIAC baseball, you could zero in on Albany State. There, Greg Wells terrorized pitchers for four years and earned his nickname “Boomer.” He was a force on the…
When Dave Clark arrived at Jackson State as a freshman in the fall of 1980, he was a talented baseball player who nearly didn’t get a chance at a college career. He was so uncertain of his baseball future, he…
In the fall semester of 1961, a freshman from Boynton Beach, Fla., arrived on Florida A&M’s campus ready to leave her historic mark on Tallahassee. And she didn’t even know it. For Harriett Louise Adderley, her remarkable story from Tallahassee…
Donnie Shell perseveres. For so many years as he forged his path, people doubted and discounted him. As a dedicated student and athlete coming out of rural Whitmire, South Carolina, he barely registered on college recruiters’ radars. And when he…
Think of Roy Lee Jackson and an image of the 6-foot-2 righthander firing off the mound might quickly come to mind. How about visions of the powerful bat he wielded in college? Or maybe you think of his singing and…
In the 1960s, on the campus of Florida A&M, a sports fan could marvel at an incredible array of student-athletes doing their thing for FAMU. Jake Gaither and Bobby Lang had established dominant football and track programs led by future…
The path of the Great Migration led many people from tucked-away rural parts of the Deep South, like Mississippi, to muscular, bustling northern cities, like Chicago. Marvin Freeman, born on the South Side of Chicago in 1963, traveled against that…
