{"id":506,"date":"2007-06-26T15:43:51","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T15:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2007\/06\/26\/coach-boo-ferriss-leads-tour-through-baseball-museum\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:56:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:56:07","slug":"coach-boo-ferriss-leads-tour-through-baseball-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2007\/06\/coach-boo-ferriss-leads-tour-through-baseball-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Boo Ferriss leads tour through baseball museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"299\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/DSC_7423.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Coach Dave &ldquo;Boo&rdquo; Ferriss (center) gives detailed information about items on display in The Dave &ldquo;Boo&rdquo; Ferriss Museum to (from left) Weldon Aultman, president of Planters Bank of Indianola; Gene Van Cleve of Indianola&rsquo;s Van Cleve Insurance Agency; Frank Crosthwait, attorney of Indianola (4<sup>th<\/sup> from left); and Mark Hargett, president of Planters Bank of Cleveland (at right). Also attending were Vernon Beard of Indianola and Bubba Ely of Shaw.<\/font> <\/p>\n<div>As part of the recent Cellular South Ferriss Trophy presentation held in Cleveland, Delta State sponsored a drawing for all those purchasing tickets to the event. Three winners were selected at random, with each winning a guided tour of the Dave &ldquo;Boo&rdquo; Ferriss Museum by the legendary coach, himself. Jimmy Clayton of Indianola was the announced winner of this tour, but flight delays prevented his attendance. <\/div>\n<div><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=\"2\">Winners <font color=\"#000000\"><span>were able to i<\/span><\/font>nvite five other people&nbsp;to join them for the tour and lunch, which <font color=\"#000000\">was also<\/font> included. Other winners include Mark Hamlin of Jackson and Eddie Joe Alias of Yazoo City. <\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=\"2\">On the campus of Delta State, &nbsp;&ldquo;Inning by Inning: A Life in Baseball&rdquo; chronicles Ferriss&rsquo; illustrious career from his early days at Shaw High School, to a young man at Mississippi State, to the height of his career with the Boston Red Sox, to his days at the helm of the Delta State baseball program. <\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=\"2\">The Dave &ldquo;Boo&rdquo; Ferriss Museum is housed in the Crawford Center located at the entrance of Ferriss Field, home of the Delta State baseball team.<\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Dave &ldquo;Boo&rdquo; Ferriss (center) gives detailed information about items on display in The Dave &ldquo;Boo&rdquo; Ferriss Museum to (from left) Weldon Aultman, president of Planters Bank of Indianola; Gene&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41969,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/41969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}