2012 College Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees

Lou's induction speech

After a freshman season in which he hit .180, Lou Brock became the star of the Southern University baseball team that won the 1959 NAIA College World Series, becoming the first and only HBCU baseball team to win a national title at any level. That year, Brock his .524 for the season with five home runs, eight doubles and six triples. Following the season, he was selected to play for the United States national team in the Pan American Games.

In 1960, Brock's junior season, he again led the Jaguars to the NAIA College World Series, where they lost in the semifinals. As he was in 1959, Brock was named to the NAIA All-Tournament team in 1960. For the year, Lou Brock hit .351 and stole 18 bases.

After his junior year, Lou Brock signed a contract with the Chicago Cubs and after a 19-year pro career, Brock earned entry into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Nomar's induction speech

First Team All-American: Sporting News (1993)
First Team All-American: Collegiate Baseball, Baseball America, ABCA, NCBWA (1994)
Freshman All-American: Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball (1992)
Two-time Academic All-American: 1993-94
ACC Freshman of the Year: 1992

Garciaparra hit .427 with 16 home runs, 73 RBIs and 33 stolen bases in 1994 while leading Georgia Tech to the finals of the College World Series.

• Named to the College World Series Legends Team in 2010.

Wayne's induction speech

HIGHLIGHTS
Record: 1,445-453 (30 years)
Five NJCAA National Championships: (San Jacinto 1985, '86, '87, '89, '90)
College World Series Championship: Rice - 2003

• Named Collegiate Baseball Magazine's Junior College Coach of the Century

At Rice, Graham has amassed 912 wins and maintained a .716 win percentage over 20 full seasons.

The Owls' winning percentage in the nation over the last 13 full seasons is .742 from 1999-2011, better than every other Division I program.

Graham has coached 30 different Rice players to a total of 45 All-America awards, including three national players of the year (Lance Berkman, Damon Thames and Anthony Rendon).

In 2007, Graham had 14 Owls drafted in that year alone. The 14 draft picks tied the college record for the most players selected from one school in a single year. He has developed 14 Owls into first-round Najor League Draft picks, including as recently as 2011, when Anthony Rendon was the sixth player taken overall.

Rice has won 16 conference championships in a row, including Conference USA regular-season and tournament crowns, all nine Western Athletic Conference titles during the Owls' tenure in that league (1997-2005) and the final Southwest Conference Championship in 1996. The 2011 season was Rice's 17th straight appearance in an NCAA Regional.

The Owls have been to the NCAA Super Regionals nine times since the format was adopted in 1999. The Blue & Gray has been to the College World Series seven times since 1997. In 2003, Graham led Rice to the school's first team national championship in any sport.

In 1984, he led San Jac to the first of seven consecutive 50-win seasons and the national junior college tournament. A loss in the championship game only served to fuel the fires that led to three straight national titles in 1985-87. Another runner-up showing in 1988 was followed by two more titles in '89 and '90, giving the Gators five championships in a six-year span while preparing dozens of players for major college and/or professional careers.

Graham's honors at San Jac were nearly endless. He was named Collegiate Baseball Magazine's Junior College Coach of the Century, as well as the newspaper's Coach of the Decade for the 1980s. He was named the national junior college coach of the year five times and the top Texas junior college coach six times. His uniform No. 37 was retired by San Jacinto, and he was inducted into the Junior College Hall of Fame in May 1995.

Son Bill Sancet's induction speech

"Pop" McKale brought Frank Sancet to the University of Arizona in 1947 as assistant baseball coach. He also was backfield coach for football, freshman football coach and freshman basketball coach during those early years. In 1950, he took over for Pop as head baseball coach and went on to distinguish himself over the next 23 seasons, leading the baseball Wildcats to four conference championships and 10 trips to the College World Series. Frank brought Arizona baseball a national reputation for excellence. He coached 28 All-Americans and 66 of his players signed professional contracts. He retired as the second-winningest coach in the history of college baseball with a record of 832 wins, 238 losses and eight ties.

Brad's induction speech 

• Named as the 1998 Collegiate Player of the Year by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and won the Smith Award given to the National Collegiate Baseball Player of the Year as selected by CoSIDA.

• First three-time All-American in Florida school history

1998
First-Team All-American: Baseball America, Baseball Weekly, Collegiate Baseball, NCBWA, Sporting News

1997
First-Team All-American: Baseball America, NCBWA
Second-Team All-American: Collegiate Baseball, Sporting News

1996
First-Team All-American: NCBWA
Second-Team All-American: Collegiate Baseball

Finalist for the 1998 Golden Spikes Award ... Broke UF career batting average, HR, RBI, runs, walks and slugging percentage standards ... Broke seven individual season batting records and tied/reset seven individual performance marks ... Hit 55 career home runs, becoming the eighth player in SEC history to hit 50 or more home runs ... Reached base safely in 141 consecutive games at one point of his career and reached base in 190 of 195 career games ... First player in NCAA history to hit 20 home runs, win 10 games and steal 20 bases ... Most Outstanding Player, 1996 NCAA East Regional ... 1996 College World Series All-Tournament team ... All-SEC and ABCA All-South Region, 1996-98 ... Three-time SEC Player of the Week during his career.