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From MSFame.com News
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,” he said. Mississippi State’s former national college player of the year and six-time MLB All-Star Will Clark and current Belhaven and former USM head coach Hill Denson, who posted 12 consecutive winning seasons in Hattiesburg while guiding the Golden Eagles to their first ever NCAA berth are the baseball honorees in the Class of 2008. Coolidge Ball, the first African-American athlete at Ole Miss; Paul Covington, the winningest basketball coach in Jackson State University history; and, former Olympic gold medal-winner and SEC female athlete of the year Jennifer Gillom, who played 17 professional seasons, are the three basketball members of the Class of 2008. The lone football honoree is USM’s Reggie Collier, who in 1981 became the first player in college history to run for a thousand yards and pass for a thousand yards in the same season. 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. © Copyright 2001-2002 by Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Museum |
