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re: 40 years ago this month Jack Lamabe coached his last game as LSU head baseball coach

Posted on 5/17/23 at 10:02 pm to
Posted by TexTgrTed
Parker County, Texas
Member since Aug 2004
5935 posts
Posted on 5/17/23 at 10:02 pm to
My second year at the Ol’ War Skule.

Never even thought about going to a BB game.

Made plenty of games at the Assembly Center as Daddy Dale was beginning to take big steps forward with that program.
Posted by BatonrougeCajun
Somewhere in Texas
Member since Feb 2008
6509 posts
Posted on 5/17/23 at 10:33 pm to
40 years? Where does the time go?
Posted by JodyPlauche
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2009
9288 posts
Posted on 5/17/23 at 10:48 pm to
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40 years? Where does the time go?


Travel ball
Posted by BatonrougeCajun
Somewhere in Texas
Member since Feb 2008
6509 posts
Posted on 5/17/23 at 11:00 pm to
Solid
Posted by Morpheus
In your Dreams
Member since Apr 2022
5135 posts
Posted on 5/17/23 at 11:12 pm to
Great post buddy
Posted by 1979Tiger
Member since Aug 2021
13 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 12:33 am to
“Tomato’s ” Lamabe was the way he was introduced to me by someone working in the equipment department. Really nice man
Posted by Basura Blanco
Member since Dec 2011
9296 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 12:44 am to
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.Soderberg was also on the LSU Indian Mounds one night with his girlfriend when she was struck by a motorist who tried to vault it, and she was badly injured; he was injured too and couldn't start the SEC Tournament-clinching game later that day, nor could the back-up pitcher either who was himself struck by a drunk driver at the same exact time across town


WTF?
Posted by PurpleAndGoldFinger
Baton Rouge, La.
Member since Aug 2004
1266 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 8:17 am to
Know his son. Class guy.
Posted by rjokerlsu
Big Spring, TX
Member since Apr 2007
6926 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 10:26 am to
Jack Lamabe was a pretty good coach, but certainly Bergman was a huge improvement.

I still remember him as a big league pitcher and probably still have his baseball card.
Posted by Tomball Tiger 2
Member since Oct 2016
277 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 11:20 am to
I tried out when Lamabe was coach and Smoke was a grad assistant. I had run track at McNeese for a couple of years, then transferred to LSU. I was rooming with two guys from St. louis who had come to LSU on baseball schollys and they talked me into trying out. I made it thru two cuts before being the final cut off the team. I hadn’t played ball in two years but I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Nothing like it is today foe sure!
Posted by Tomball Tiger 2
Member since Oct 2016
277 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 11:23 am to
I remember this well as I used to sit with the baseball guys in Pentagon cafeteria. Soderberg had some real talent but was not the same after that incident. That poor girl almost died of her injuries.
Posted by JodyPlauche
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2009
9288 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 11:35 am to
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I had classes with Mash. He recently died.


He was one of the 1st Managers of Skip Bertman's Grand Slam with Jimmy Wynn.

Sorry to hear he died...my cousin played with him

Looks like me and Lamont have another grave to visit.
This post was edited on 5/18/23 at 11:44 am
Posted by LSU82BILL
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Member since Sep 2006
10433 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 11:53 am to
Randy Fendelman, Mike Perkins or Bill Van Loon?

Soderberg transferred to after one year at LSU because he was academically ineligible. He had some potential but wasn't all that great before the Indian mounds incident. He was the original Nuke Laloosh.
Posted by I-59 Tiger
Vestavia Hills, AL
Member since Sep 2003
36703 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 11:59 am to
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the Indian mounds incident


I hate to sound like TMZ or The Enquirer,but would one of you fellows who mentioned this elaborate a little more for the rest of us? I enrolled at LSU in August 1980 and not familiar at all about this story.
Posted by Tiger Ugly
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
15235 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 12:07 pm to
What you just described and very well I might add, of the Jack Lamabe times....about 95 percent of college baseball programs in terms of fan interest are still at that stage.
Posted by BilbeauTBaggins
probably stuck in traffic
Member since May 2021
5990 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 12:33 pm to
Lots of those universities either have pro teams or minor league teams that draw in their audience.
Posted by Tiger Ugly
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
15235 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 12:45 pm to
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Lots of those universities either have pro teams or minor league teams that draw in their audience.



I wouldn't say lots.
Posted by denvertiger
Golden
Member since Feb 2007
4091 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 12:55 pm to
quote:

Before Skip it was not unsual to go to a game at the Box vs a state team like SE La or Nicholls and the crowd would split if not even a tad more for the other guys.


I've got friends who would go study during games if it was nice out because you could spread out and it was reasonably quiet. No shite.
Posted by FLBooGoTigs1
Nocatee, FL.
Member since Jan 2008
55787 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 1:00 pm to
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Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge OP. I love reading stuff like this


I second this.

Tigerdropping is great for getting the older people in here telling some great stories. I just made 50 years old this year and didn't get to see some of the past LSU greats but hearing some stories of people that were around LSU at these times is awesome. My contribution Skip Bertman came to my little town in Louisiana and brought some players and held a clinic out on our little baseball field. I guess it was around 1983 or 1984 and I never forgot it.
Posted by supatigah
CEO of the Keith Hernandez Fan Club
Member since Mar 2004
88183 posts
Posted on 5/18/23 at 1:21 pm to

think this is 81

Mike Saab is second row, second from the right
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