Jeramie Moore

Jeramie Moore’s baseball career culminated in one of the most dramatic moments in college baseball history.

In Moore’s final collegiate game at LSU, teammate Warren Morris launched a two-out, two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Tigers a 9-8 win over the Miami Hurricanes in the 1996 College World Series final.

With one swing of the bat, a career that started in Alexandria, AL, reached its crescendo in Omaha, NE.

A two-sport standout at Alexandria, Moore lettered three years in football under legendary head coach Larry Ginn. As a senior offensive lineman in 1991, he graded out at 90 percent and was chosen first-team all-state by the Alabama Sports Writers Association.

He lettered five years in baseball, earning first-team all-county honors in 1991 as a junior and again in 1992 after leading the Valley Cubs in batting average (.419), home runs (8), and RBIs (30) as a senior.

Moore didn’t have any offers after graduation, but his performance in the Lions Club East-West All-Star game caught the eye of Tim Hulsey, the head coach at Enterprise State Junior College.

Entering his sophomore year, Moore was looking for an opportunity to play at a four-year school, and defending national champion LSU just so happened to be looking for a first baseman. After a Minnesota Twins scout told LSU about Moore, assistant coach Mike Bianco — now the head coach at Ole Miss — came to watch him play.

LSU was the first school to offer Moore a scholarship and an opportunity. He accepted, and “the rest is history from that point.”

Moore was a three-year letterman for the Tigers. LSU won the SEC West during his first season there in 1994, and in 1996, the Tigers won the national championship in what many consider the greatest finish in college baseball history.

After his playing career ended, Moore got into coaching. He was an assistant coach at McNeese State from 1997-98, before taking the head coaching job at Oneonta High School, a position he held from 1999-2003. After a stint as an assistant at Samford, Moore went back to LSU for two years before getting out of coaching in 2006.