Todd Walker

Sport: Baseball

Induction Year: 2011

University: LSU

Induction Year: 2011

A 12-year major league baseball veteran, Todd Walker is already a member of the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame (2006) and College Baseball Hall of Fame (2009). The Bossier City native was named to the 28-person College World Series Legends Team announced in May 2010. During a three-year career at LSU from 1992-94, Walker, an infielder, was one of the greatest hitters in SEC history.

In just three seasons, he became the SEC’s all-time leader in hits, runs, RBI and total bases. A first team All-American in 1993 and ’94, he earned CWS MVP honors while helping LSU to its second national title in 1993 after being named SEC Player of the Year that spring. He was a first-team All-SEC performer in each of his three seasons at LSU. After the 2010 season, he still ranked first in school history in batting average (.396) and triples (15), second in total bases (557), third in hits (310) and RBI (246), and fourth in home runs (52), runs (234) and doubles (61).

Selected in the first round of the 1994 draft by the Minnesota Twins (No. 8 overall), he played mostly second base for seven teams from 1996-2007 (12 seasons). He batted .289 in 1,288 career games with 1,316 hits, 107 home runs and 545 RBIs. Walker eclipsed the .300 mark twice (posting a career-best .316 in 1998 with Minnesota and hitting .305 with the Chicago Cubs in 2005) and batted .280 or better seven times in his 12 seasons. He had a career-best 183 hits when he batted .299 with the Cincinnati Reds in 2002. Walker made just 96 errors in 5,088 total chances in the major leagues for a career fielding percentage of .981.