Sports documentaries have seemingly taken a life of their own amongst the sports networks in recent years. Much of the credit for the rise in popularity of sports documentaries can be given to ESPN and their 30 for 30 series that has taken off the inside the last decade.
If you’re a subscriber to SEC Network, then you are probably familiar with the SEC Storied series. If you’re not familiar with the series, it began in 2011 and has grown into a wildly successful series. SEC Storied produced “The Book of Manning” which has gone on to be one of the “most-viewed documentaries in ESPN history.” The series even has 2 Sports Emmy nominations that it received in 2015.
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“The Walk Off” stories the most famous home run in LSU baseball and College World Series history. It documents one of the most unlikely heroic feats that seems almost to be drawn up in a Hollywood basement. In 1996, Warren Morris became the only player to end the College World Series with a walk off home run. Yeah, that is awesome, but there is much more to it than just a walk off home run.
Warren Morris was inserted to the line up of the title game against the University of Miami while he was still recovering from a broken bone in his right hand. In the press release linked above, Gracie Blackburn notes that Warren Morris could “barely swing a bat”. He had not hit a home run during the entire season, and he came up to bat in the bottom of the ninth with 2 outs. And of course, they were down 1, with a runner on 1st.
*Insert dramatic music and slow motion*
*Clank!*
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LSU baseball wins the College World Series, and the rest is history.
Noted as one of the smallest players from either team, Warren Morris hit the biggest home run in College World Series history with amidst more than unlikely circumstances. The story is real life that seems to be written for a fiction story, as it is almost to good to be true.
In a conference that is so dominating and obsessed with football, stories like this remind us of the history of the SEC across sports of all kinds that make us proud to be fans of the conference. This is a great story, and the perfect ending to it would be the 2016 LSU Tigers channeling their inner Warren Morris to bring home a College World Series Championship victory 20 years later.
Because sometimes, it is just funny how these things work.
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“The Walk Off” is set to premiere June 30, 2016, 9 p.m. ET on SEC Network.