Many things about M.L. Woodruff’s life paint the picture of an old-school baseball coach. Still, nothing fueled a desire to coach within him. A major life change did.
That was borne out in his days at LSU and over 14 years pitching in Major League Baseball, a career that has landed him in the Class of 2023 of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
Now 71 and third base coach of the Atlanta Braves, Wash smiled and shook his head at the memory of the skinny kid from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans who left home to play baseball 53 years ago.
For more than two decades, Lyons was the T-P’s high school writer based in the River Parishes Bureau covering St. Charles, St. John and St. James parishes, celebrating the accomplishments of the athletes and their teams in that area between New Orleans and Baton Rouge where high school sports have always mattered.
For Bruce Brown, the world’s view of the biggest thing out there was never a guiding light for him.
They go on and on, the “Robeisms” that are so famous to those who ever spent any time with Tony Robichaux.
In her entire gymnastics career at LSU, Susan Jackson never got a perfect 10. For her former coach, that just doesn’t match the recollections she has of one of the best LSU’s program ever had.
Through the years, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame inductees have carved individual paths to greatness.
Kyle Williams was never one who craved attention.
