20 years later, former Clemson baseball standout reflects on record-setting offense

Michael Johnson appreciates it even more now. And while he certainly played his part, the former Clemson baseball standout also considers himself lucky to come along at the time that he did. “We had such a good hitting team,” Johnson recently reminisced to The Clemson Insider. Two decades ago, the Tigers put together arguably the […]

Former Clemson great Michael Johnson recalls Bakich’s ‘positive energy’ during late-night hitting sessions

He doesn’t remember exactly where Clemson’s baseball team was headed on this particular morning in the spring of 2002. Michael Johnson just knew he was running low on time. Then an All-American first baseman for the Tigers, Johnson had pulled an all-nighter in the batting cages with then-volunteer assistant coach Erik Bakich, who, according to […]