His first win as Florida State’s baseball coach came 38 years ago and coincided with the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team’s massive upset of the Russians at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics.
Do you believe in miracles?
Mike Martin does.
How else do you explain him going from that first unlikely and unsteady come-from-behind victory against Miami as an upstart coach all those years ago to becoming the all-time winningest skipper in college baseball history nearly four decades later? With his 1,976th victory a few days ago against Clemson, Martin surpassed University of Texas legend Augie Garrido for first place on college baseball’s all-time wins list.