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Jan-4-2019-E-Edition.Pdf Collegiate Baseball The Voice Of Amateur Baseball Started In 1958 At The Request Of Our Nation’s Baseball Coaches Vol. 62, No. 1 Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 $4.00 Mike Martin Has Seen It All As A Coach Bus driver dies of heart attack Yastrzemski in the ninth for the game winner. Florida State ultimately went 51-12 during the as team bus was traveling on a 1980 season as the Seminoles won 18 of their next 7-lane highway next to ocean in 19 games after those two losses at Miami. San Francisco, plus other tales. Martin led Florida State to 50 or more wins 12 consecutive years to start his head coaching career. By LOU PAVLOVICH, JR. Entering the 2019 season, he has a 1,987-713-4 Editor/Collegiate Baseball overall record. Martin has the best winning percentage among ALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Mike Martin, the active head baseball coaches, sporting a .736 mark winningest head coach in college baseball to go along with 16 trips to the College World Series history, will cap a remarkable 40-year and 39 consecutive regional appearances. T Of the 3,981 baseball games played in FSU coaching career in 2019 at Florida St. University. He only needs 13 more victories to be the first history, Martin has been involved in 3,088 of those college coach in any sport to collect 2,000 wins. in some capacity as a player or coach. What many people don’t realize is that he started He has been on the field or in the dugout for 2,271 his head coaching career with two straight losses at of the Seminoles’ 2,887 all-time victories. Miami (Fla.), 10-0 and 4-3 and wondered what he Collegiate Baseball will delve into wild had got himself into. experiences he has had in his career, including the In game three, his team quickly fell behind Miami time a bus driver died of a heart attack as his team 8-2 as he made wholesale substitutions with his team was traveling in San Francisco on a 7-lane highway and faced the real possibility of starting his FSU head enroute to play Stanford. coaching career 0-3. But first we will focus on makes this southern Incredibly, the Seminoles, still trailing 8-2 heading gentleman so special. “I think first and foremost, his foundation is rooted Mike Martin embarks into the seventh, scored seven runs over the last on his final year as a three innings for Martin’s first win as the skipper at skipper in 2019. Florida St., 9-8 and included a 3-run homer by Mike See MARTIN HAS EXPERIENCED, Page 2 Photo By Ryals Lee Jaw Wired Shut For 1 1/2 Months DEALING WITH TRIO OF MAJOR INJURIES North Carolina Central outfielder Mitchell McCrary underwent labrum surgeries on both shoulders and then was hit in the jaw with a 90 mph fastball. By LOU PAVLOVICH, JR. Photo by Red Rocket Photography Editor/Collegiate Baseball URHAM, N.C. — On April Fools day in 2017, Mitchell McCrary of North Carolina Central was drilled in the face I couldn’t put a straw Dby a 90 mph fastball while trying to bunt. between my upper and He was rushed to Duke University Hospital, and surgery was “ performed to repair three separate breaks in his jaw. lower teeth. It had to McCrary’s mouth was wired shut for a month and a half. Then go on the inside of my his mouth was half wired for another four weeks. He couldn’t eat normally as he craved anything that he could cheek as food eventually chew and had to cope with drinking his food for months. seeped through the sides Liquified food was sucked through a straw placed in front of of my teeth and into my his teeth next to his cheek as it seeped through small openings between his teeth and into his throat. throat. It was agonizing and torture. PITCHING COACH OF THE YEAR — Stetson Pitching Coach — Mitchell McCrary, “I found myself filling my heart with hatred and depression,” Dave Therneau is Collegiate Baseball’s Pitching Coach of The N.C. Central Univ. said McCrary. Year for 2018. The Hatters led the nation in shutouts, strikeouts, “Hate, that it was me who was given this obstacle to overcome. saves, ERA and fewest hits allowed per nine innings last season. Read about the amazing system Coach Therneau has in place See TORTURED BY INJURIES, Page 4 to help pitchers thrive beginning on page 5. Inside Collegiate Baseball ” Web Site: www.baseballnews.com 2019 College Preview Section Potential High 2019 Draft Picks Hitting Balls Harder In Games All the top players, teams on every CB takes a look at the elite players Perry Husband gives his cheat level of college baseball examined in college baseball who have a shot codes to unlocking more ball exit in our 36-page pullout/Pages 21-56 at being drafted high/Page 34 velocity with swings/Page 8 Page 2 Collegiate Baseball Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 Martin Has Experienced Wild Collegiate Baseball The Voice Of Times, Loads Of Wins At FSU Amateur Baseball Continued From Page 1 in God,” said his son Mike, Jr., an Collegiate Baseball (ISSN 0530-9751) is published twice a month assistant coach at FSU for the past January-May and once in June, July, September and October 21 seasons who also played for his (14 total issues) by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, Inc., 2515 dad at Florida St. N. Stone Ave., Tucson, AZ 85705. Periodicals postage paid at “That’s the way he goes about Tucson, AZ. his life. He wants to be a positive influence on people. He is extremely Postmaster: Send address changes to: polite. People are always amazed Collegiate Baseball at how kind he is, and it is a P.O. Box 50566 direct reflection of the way he was Tucson, AZ 85703 brought up. “But don’t mistake his kindness Overnight Mail: 2515 N. Stone Ave., Tucson, AZ 85705 with not being competitive. He has never deviated from those beliefs Past Publishers: Abe Chanin, Lou Pavlovich, Sr. Single 1-Year Subscription Rate: $28 for 14 issues. and the way things should be. He Single 1-Year First Class U.S. Subscription: $45 genuinely cares about each and Single 1-Year Foreign Air Mail Subscription: $50 every person in our organization. Special Team Subscriptions: 11 papers each issue sent to one “He wants the best for them. 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I couldn’t pull it He gets excited and emotional does, everything stops because it off at first. about the successes of people in Area Code (520) doesn’t happen often. But when it “Finally, I just went into a rage Publisher: Lou Pavlovich, Jr. (Call 623-4530) his program.” does, look out.” and jerked his foot off of that Editor: Lou Pavlovich, Jr. (Call 623-4530 to report stories) Mike, Jr. said when Deion Mike, Jr. said something that accelerator. While I was doing this, Advertising Director: Diane Pavlovich (Call 623-4530) Sanders sees his dad, it becomes an goes unnoticed over nearly four Chip grabbed the steering wheel Subscription Department: (Call 623-4530) emotional experience for the Hall of decades of coaching is that his and sat in the lap of the driver. Fax Machine: (Call 624-5501) Fame NFL football player who also [email protected] father has run a clean program. “So I just sat down at that point. E-Mail: played baseball at Florida St. Web Site: www.baseballnews.com “That is often overlooked, and Chip slowed the bus down and as “Every time Deion sees my dad, people do cheat out there. As time he brought it to a stop. he literally gets teary eyed. That’s a goes by, nobody realizes this. That “Our trainer started administering guy who really took to heart what 2019 Publication Schedule is admirable.” CPR to the bus driver as soon as he my dad wanted his players to learn Martin’s life is filled with could. about life. Now Deion knows how January 4 March 8 May 3 September 6 incredible baseball stories. “I remember getting off the January 25 March 22 May 17 October 4 beneficial those wise comments February 8 April 5 June 14 bus and realizing what could have were at the time he played baseball Fatal Heart Attack February 22 April 19 July 12 happened. If we had lost control of at Florida St. years ago. His 2001 Florida St. ball club the bus, it could have easily gone “He has said many times that my embarked on a cross-country trip into the bay along the right hand dad has been like another father to to California and landed at San side of the highway and who knows Moving? him.
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