re: What’s your first LSU baseball memory?

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One that stuck with me was a Wes Davis HR that hit the apartments over the left field wall of the old box.

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At Skip Bertman Camp one year Beetle Bailey said he told our hitters to, “hit the ball so hard the students in the married housing apartments will think they’re back in Beirut.”

1975 when we won the SEC. The Session(sp?) brothers were awesome. Catcher and pitcher.

Watching the ‘91 CWS and thinking, “I thought LSU played football?”
From there I would only watch or follow LSU when they were in Omaha until a friend took me to my first game at The Box 11 years later. After that I began to follow the team more closely.

Buying my first season ticket for the 1987 season and eventually watching every game that Ben McDonald pitched at Alex Box. Loved watching him pitch (except for that walk-off Grand Slam to Stanford at the 87 CWS).

I believe it was the 1990 CWS when Georgia took the title.

I’m a good bit younger than most of y’all, so my first game attended in-person was in 2003 against Jacksonville State on a Sunday afternoon. We mercy ruled them something like 19-1 in 7 innings.

So I grew up watching the Smoke Laval teams in person and the transition into the Mainieri years. I watched the Skip Bertman glory years on VHS tapes my dad had saved. JC Holt was my favorite player on those Smoke Laval era teams. I was still an infant in the hospital when Warren Morris hit the walk-off, and my parents had to watch it from the nursery.

I remember the Marist 3B fainting from heat stroke in the 2005 regional game when it was extremely hot on that Friday afternoon. The next day, Wayne Graham was in the urinal next to me before the Rice game we lost.

Lots of fun memories at the Old Box. It was certainly intimidating for visiting teams. I remember a pitcher for UNO talking a bunch of shite to the fans heckling him in the bullpen, then going in to face LSU and immediately giving up 3 or 4 long homers in a row before getting pulled.

I was a student at LSU from 1984 to 1989. Although our first trip to Omaha was in 1986, it took some time to build the fan interest. It really didn't take off until 1991 and 92.

I regret not going more as a student. I may have seen 5 games at the old Box in my LSU career. I remember walking in the stadium and sitting right behind home plate for a Saturday afternoon game because there were plenty of available seats and there was no security walking around asking to show your ticket.

I remember going to a midweek game when Skip brought in the San Diego Chicken. It was packed that night. I also remember that the baseball games weren't on the radio back in the 1980's. Of course, this was before internet and cell phones. The student phone directory had a number listed for Alex Box. I remember several times calling the Box and getting an answer, then asking for the score.

I wish my fandom of baseball today was the same back then. Regionals weren't televised until the mid to late 90's and even the World Series wasn't appointment viewing. In fact, some of the 1991 CWS games involving LSU were not broadcast live on ESPN. They would show them tape delayed at 2am the next morning. Times have changed.

Buddy of mine in high school had a sister that dated (eventually married) one of the players during the late 90’s - 2000. His family brought me up there to my first game. I remember people were getting their autographs and my buddy and I didn’t have anything for them to sign. We asked the concession stand folks for a cardboard box, tore the edges off and had the guys sign that.

Lyle Mouton hitting it all the way to married student housing

Was with my parents on Perdido Key 1989. Just so happened to be CWS week. We weren’t as great as Texas and Wichita St., but being one of the last 4 teams was a pleasant surprise. It was good to have another major competitive sport given Dale Brown had already peaked (we didn’t know that at the time, but I was too young to remember his final four teams) and Mike Archer didn’t seem like he’d continue what Arnsparger started. Wichita won 68 games that year. We didn’t play them, but I thought they had to be good to beat Texas. I wouldn’t have believed we’d beat them for the championship 2 years later, but they weren’t the same.

ETA: I guess the first memory was the loss to Miami. I don’t remember the Long Beach game, but we felt vindicated to beat Miami on the second try. I guess that’s when Skip started to pass them up.