Word: walsh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There, on the same patch of grass where two dozen big leaguers and four national championship nines have gathered in the last 10 years, Walsh delivered what must have been the seminal speech of his long, highly successful coaching career...
...only speculate as to its contents. Perhaps Walsh was fiery, angrily reminding his ball club that their seasons, and for some their careers, were about to come to a screeching halt. A loss to Tulane would be a step backward, a regression on the path to national recognition...
...then came senior centerfielder Brian Ralph, the man Walsh has called the greatest defensive centerfielder in college baseball. The lefthander--who broke his hand in spring training and still managed to lead the squad in homers and slugging percentage--was the toast of the prestigious Cape Cod summer league...
...that stand as an epithet, then. Walsh's club stole, bunted, sacrifice flied, hit and ran and, it seemed, positively willed its way to a third-place finish in its second NCAA Regional in as many years...
...fact that we were one of three teams left standing with LSU and Fullerton says a lot," Walsh said. "Those are programs that have owned the national championship in the last five years. We were fighting for national respect today, to show that we're not only a great school, but that we've got a great baseball team...