BATON ROUGE — A trio of LSU baseball legends have been voted as three of the greatest to every play.
Tigers pitcher Ben McDonald, second baseman Todd Walker and shortstop Alex Bregman have been named to the ESPN Greatest All-Time College Baseball Team.
LSU leads all schools with three players on the team, and the Tigers have more representatives on the squad than all other SEC schools combined.
McDonald was a two-time All-American, a 1988 Olympic gold medalist, 1989 Golden Spikes Award winner, and was named the 1989 National Player of the Year by Baseball America, The Sporting News and Collegiate Baseball. McDonald also set an LSU career mark with 373 strikeouts and established in 1989 SEC records for single-season strikeouts (202), innings pitched (152.1) and consecutive scoreless innings (44.2).
McDonald was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2010 and his No. 19 jersey was retired in 2009.
Walker was a two-time first-team All-American at LSU who helped lead the Tigers to a national championship in 1993, earning College World Series Most Outstanding Player honors that same year. Walker also a two-time Golden Spikes Award finalist, SEC Player of the Year in 1993.
In three seasons, Walker posted a .396 cumulative batting average and ended his collegiate career as the SEC all-time leader in hits (310), runs (234), RBI (246) and total bases (557).
Walker was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2011 and his No. 12 jersey was retired in 2017.
Bregman starred at LSU from 2013 through 2015 and helped lead the Tigers to a pair of College World Series appearances. Bregman was a two-time first-team all-American, received the 2013 Brooks Wallace Award as the nation’s best shortstop and was a finalist for the 2015 Golden Spikes Award.
Bregman started all 196 games of his LSU career at shortstop, batting .337 (265-for-786) with 56 doubles, 10 triples, 21 homers, 148 RBI, 153 runs and 66 stolen bases.
In addition to the the trio of LSU players, New Orleans native and Louisiana Sports Hall of Famer Will Clark was named to the team.
ESPN Greatest All-Time College Baseball Team
Catcher: Buster Posey, Florida State
First Base: Will Clark, Mississippi State
Second Base: Todd Walker, LSU
Shortstop: Alex Bregman, LSU
Third Base: Robin Ventura, Oklahoma State
Left Field: Barry Bonds, Arizona State
Center Field: J.D. Drew, Florida State
Right Field: Joe Carter, Wichita State
Two-Way Player: John Olerud, Washington State
Left-Handed Pitcher: Greg Swindell, Texas
Right-Handed Pitcher: Ben McDonald, LSU
Relief Pitcher: Huston Street, Texas