| Mike Martin |
Full Name: Michael David Martin
Born: February 12, 1944, Charlotte, N.C.
Died: February 1, 2024, Tallahassee, Fla.
School: Garinger High School in Charlotte, North Carolina
Wingate JC in Wingate, North Carolina
Seminole Relations: Father of Mike Martin
Grandfather of Tyler Martin
Awards: 2007 American Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame
2012 Baseball America Coach of the Year
2019 College Baseball Hall of Fame
2019 Rawlings Coach of the Year
2019 Baseball America Coach of the Year
2024 Lefty Gomez Award
Retired Jersey: 11 - 2021
Legacy Bricks: Legacy Walk Map Link
2019 Coach HOF - Loc 97
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Year No Pos Hgt Wgt B T Cl Ltr Hometown 1965 15 CF 6-0 180 R R Jr * Charlotte, NC 1966 11 CF 6-0 165 R R Sr * Charlotte, NC 1975 11 1976 11 1977 11 1978 11 1979 11 1980 11 1981 11 1982 11 1983 11 1984 11 1985 11 1986 11 1987 11 1988 11 1989 11 1990 11 1991 11 1992 11 1993 11 1994 11 1995 11 1996 11 1997 11 1998 11 1999 11 2000 11 2001 11 2002 11 2003 11 2004 11 2005 11 2006 11 2007 11 2008 11 2009 11 2010 11 2011 11 2012 11 2013 11 2014 11 2015 11 2016 11 2017 11 2018 11 2019 11 |
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Year Award 1996 Atlantic Coast Conference - Coach of the Year 1998 Atlantic Coast Conference - Coach of the Year 1999 Atlantic Coast Conference - Coach of the Year 2001 Atlantic Coast Conference - Coach of the Year 2007 Atlantic Coast Conference - Coach of the Year 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference - Coach of the Year 2012 Atlantic Coast Conference - Coach of the Year |
| Member of the FSU Hall of Fame |
| Elected into the FSU Hall of Fame in 2019 |
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Mike Martin will cap a 40-year head coaching career at Florida State in 2019 after announcing in June the upcoming season will be his last leading the Seminoles. Martin became the all-time winningest
coach in college baseball history in 2018 and takes a 1,987-713-4 record into the 2019 campaign. Martin and the Seminoles won 43 games in 2018, the 41st consecutive season FSU has won at least 40 games, by far the longest active streak in the country (the next closest school is Louisville, with seven). Martin passed the late Augie Garrido (1,975) for the wins record with a 3-2, 13-inning win at No. 9 Clemson on May 5, 2018. FSU would also beat the Tigers in the ACC Tournament semifinals en route to a second-consecutive (eighth overall) ACC Championship. Along with the most wins in college baseball, Martin also has the best winning percentage among active head coaches, sporting a .736 win percentage to go along with 16 trips to the College World Series. Martin, a man whose uniform number – 11 – is universally substituted among FSU faithful, is a member of the Florida Sports Hall of Fame (inducted 2005), the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame (2007) and his home-state North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame (2018). Including five years as Florida State’s first full-time assistant coach from 1975-79 and two years as a player from 1965-66, Martin has been associated with Florida State for 47 of the program’s 72 seasons. Of the 3,981 baseball games played in FSU history, Martin has been involved in 3,088 of those in some capacity. Even more impressively, he’s been on the field or in the dugout for 2,271 of the Seminoles’ 2,887 all-time victories. Career Highlights
Obituary for Mike Martin Published by Seminoles.com on February 1, 2024. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Mike Martin, Florida State baseball's head coach for 40 seasons and the winningest coach in college baseball history, died Thursday, February 1, 2024, after a three-year battle with Lewy body dementia. He was 79 years old. Martin is survived by his wife of 59 years, Carol; children Mike Jr, Melanie and Mary Beth; and grandchildren Hannah Elizabeth, Tyler, Thomas Joseph and Lexi. Martin capped his 40-year head coaching career at Florida State in 2019 with his 40th NCAA Tournament appearance, his 40th winning season and his 17th College World Series appearance, tied for the most all-time. Martin is the all-time winningest coach in NCAA history, for any sport, finishing his career with a 2,029-736-4 record. A man whose uniform number - 11 - was universally substituted among FSU faithful, Martin is a member of the Florida Sports Hall of Fame (inducted 2005), the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame (2007) and his home-state North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame (2018). After his retirement in 2019, he was inducted into the Florida State Athletics Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association named its Coach of the Year trophy in his honor. Just last month, Martin was recognized by the ABCA with the Lefty Gomez Award, presented to "an individual who has distinguished himself amongst his peers and has contributed significantly to the game of baseball locally, nationally and internationally." Born February 12, 1944, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Martin graduated from Garinger High School before spending two years at Wingate Junior College, where he first met the former Carol Dellinger. Accompanied by Carol, the pair moved to Tallahassee when Martin enrolled at Florida State as a junior. After helping lead the Seminoles to the 1965 College World Series and the NCAA Tournament in 1966, Martin earned his undergraduate degree in 1966 and his Master's degree in 1971. Mike and Carol married and remained in Tallahassee for the next 60 years. After coaching stints at Cobb Middle School, Godby High School and Tallahassee Community College, Martin was hired by Woody Woodward as FSU's assistant coach prior to the 1975 season. After four seasons with Woodward and one under Dick Howser, Martin was promoted to the head job in the fall of 1979 after Howser was hired away to manage the New York Yankees. Martin earned the first of his 17 College World Series appearances in 1980. He took the Seminoles three more times in the 1980s, seven times in the 1990s, twice in the 2000s and four times over his final decade, including his final year in 2019. Florida State won 19 conference titles under Martin's leadership and he was a 13-time conference Coach of the Year. He was the National Coach of the Year in 2012 and 2019. Martin had 20 players selected in the first round of the MLB Draft and 60 former players reached the Major Leagues. Eight former players were named National Player of the Year with four - Mike Fuentes, Mike Loynd, J.D. Drew and Buster Posey - recognized with the Golden Spikes Award, college baseball's Heisman Trophy. Winning alone, however, did not define Martin's brilliant career. The 2001 team got a first-hand reminder of that prior to a series at Stanford. Leaving the San Francisco airport, Martin and assistant Chip Baker gained control of the team's charter bus after the driver suffered a fatal heart attack, safely guiding the bus to the side of a busy freeway. Martin and Baker were presented with the university's prestigious Westcott Award for their bravery in saving the lives of players and staff. Martin's passion for the game and working with young people made him a popular public speaker throughout the country. His involvement through the years with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes provided another avenue for reaching out to others. In August 2017, Martin delivered the commencement address for Florida State's summer graduates, the first time in his career he was so honored. In 2004, Martin was honored by the two schools he attended as an undergraduate. Wingate University (then Wingate Junior College) bestowed upon him the honor of Distinguished Alumnus. He was also presented the Bernard F. Sliger Award for Service, named after Florida State's 11th president, which is the highest honor accorded by the Alumni Association. In
January of 2015, the Martin Family, longtime supporters of Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare's children's center and newborn intensive care unit, were honored as the children's playroom at TMH was named
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| FSU Statistics |
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Batting Statistics YEAR AVG GP GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB ATT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1965 .325 22 19 83 18 27 1 2 4 17 44 .530 6 1 8 .366 3 0 1 1966 .364 52 52 187 42 68 7 5 4 45 97 .519 32 3 19 .454 5 0 12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tot .352 74 71 270 60 95 8 7 8 62 141 .522 38 4 27 0 .428 8 0 13 0 |
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1965
Date Opponent BAT AVG GP GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB HBP SO SF SH SB ATT PO A E
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Mar 12 Miami 5 .250 1 CF 4 1 1 1 1 4 0
Mar 13 Miami 5 .429 1 CF 3 2 2 0 2 0
Mar 13 Miami 5 .500 1 CF 5 2 3 1 2 6 0
Mar 15 Florida Southern Col 4 .500 1 CF 4 1 2 1 1 4 0
Mar 18 Kentucky 5 .421 1 CF 3 0 0 0 0 0
Mar 26 Navy 5 .435 1 CF 4 0 2 0 2 0
Mar 26 Navy 4 .385 1 CF 3 0 0 0 0 0
Mar 29 Michigan State 4 .400 1 CF 4 0 2 0 2 0
Mar 30 Duke 3 .382 1 CF 4 1 1 1 1 1
Mar 31 Wake Forest 3 .378 1 CF 3 0 1 1 1 0
Apr 1 Wake Forest 3 .366 1 CF 4 3 1 1 0
Apr 2 Michigan State 3 .341 1 CF 3 1 0 0 0 0 1
Apr 3 Duke 3 .327 1 CF 5 1 1 0 1 0
Apr 3 Wake Forest 3 .327 1 CF 3 0 1 1 1 1 0
Apr 5 Auburn 3 .333 1 CF 5 0 2 1 1 4 0
Apr 6 Auburn 3 .350 1 CF 3 2 2 1 3 5 0
Apr 9 Georgia Southern 3 .349 1 CF 3 1 1 1 3 4 1 0
Apr 10 Georgia Southern 3 .324 1 CF 5 0 0 0 0 0
Apr 22 Duke 3 .347 1 CF 4 1 3 3 0
Apr 23 North Carolina State 3 .329 1 CF 4 0 0 0 0 0
Apr 24 North Carolina 3 .325 1 CF 4 1 1 0 1 0
Apr 26 Clemson 4 .321 1 CF 4 1 1 1 1 2 1 0
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.321 22 22 84 18 27 1 2 4 13 44 0 1 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 1
1966
Date Opponent BAT AVG GP GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB HBP SO SF SH SB ATT PO A E
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Mar 14 Kentucky 7 .400 1 CF 5 0 2 1 1 3 5 0
Mar 15 Kentucky 7 .500 1 CF 5 2 3 3 3 0
Mar 16 Kentucky 7 .462 1 CF 3 2 1 1 0 3 1 1
Mar 17 Kentucky 7 .529 1 CF 4 3 3 1 6 0
Mar 18 Tennessee 7 .474 1 CF 2 1 0 0 0 1 1
Mar 19 Tennessee 6 .435 1 CF 4 2 1 1 2 4 0
Mar 21 Mississippi State 7 .444 1 CF 4 2 2 1 3 0
Mar 22 Auburn 6 .400 1 CF 3 0 0 0 1 0
Mar 23 Mississippi 7 .394 1 CF 3 2 1 0 1 0
Mar 24 Mississippi 6 .405 1 CF 4 2 2 1 0 3 1 0
Mar 25 Mississippi 7 .452 1 CF 5 2 4 1 5 1 1 1
Mar 26 Mississippi 5 .422 1 CF 3 0 0 0 0 1 1
Mar 28 Michigan State 6 .417 1 CF 3 1 1 0 1 0
Mar 29 Michigan State 7 .392 1 CF 3 0 0 0 0
Mar 30 Wake Forest 3 .400 1 CF 4 1 2 2 1 1
Mar 30 Michigan State 6 .397 1 CF 3 0 1 1 0
Mar 31 Rutgers 7 .393 1 CF 3 3 1 1 4 1 0
Apr 1 Wake Forest 3 .369 1 CF 4 0 0 0 0 0
Apr 1 Auburn 8 .377 1 CF 4 0 2 0 2 0
Apr 2 Auburn 6 .375 1 CF 3 0 1 0 1 0
Apr 4 Spring Hill College 8 .387 1 CF 3 2 2 1 1 3 1 0 1
Apr 5 Spring Hill College 7 .392 1 CF 4 1 2 0 2 1 1 1
Apr 7 North Carolina 4 .410 1 CF 4 3 3 0 3 0
Apr 8 North Carolina 4 .407 1 CF 3 0 1 2 1 0
Apr 8 Miami 4 .404 1 CF 3 0 1 0 1 0
Apr 9 North Carolina 7 .413 1 CF 3 2 2 1 2 5 0
Apr 9 Miami 7 .427 1 CF 4 1 3 1 2 5 0
Apr 13 Furman 7 .420 1 CF 4 0 1 1 1 1 0
Apr 23 Louisiana State 7 .404 1 CF 4 0 0 0 0 1 1
Apr 23 Louisiana State 6 .389 1 CF 4 0 0 0 0 0
Apr 24 Loyola-New Orleans 7 .384 1 CF 4 0 1 0 1 0
Apr 25 Loyola-New Orleans 7 .371 1 CF 4 0 0 0 0 0
Apr 26 Spring Hill College 7 .367 1 CF 4 0 1 1 0 2 0
Apr 27 Spring Hill College 7 .374 1 CF 3 2 2 1 4 0
Apr 29 Georgia Southern 7 .370 1 CF 4 0 1 1 1 0
Apr 30 Georgia Southern 7 .385 1 CF 3 1 3 0 3 1 1
May 6 Florida 7 .388 1 CF 4 1 2 3 2 1 0
May 7 Florida 7 .382 1 CF 2 0 0 0 0 0
May 9 Georgia Southern 7 .374 1 CF 3 0 0 1 0 0
May 10 Georgia Southern 7 .376 1 CF 2 2 1 1 1 2 2
May 13 Jacksonville 7 .377 1 CF 5 2 2 1 2 1 1
May 19 Jacksonville 3 .372 1 CF 2 0 0 0 0 1 1
May 20 Florida 5 .364 1 CF 3 0 0 0 0 0
May 21 Florida 5 .364 1 CF 3 0 1 0 1 0
May 23 Clemson 6 .365 1 CF 5 0 2 1 1 3 0 1
May 24 Clemson 7 .368 1 CF 4 0 2 1 2 0
May 25 Clemson 7 .361 1 CF 3 0 0 0 0 0
Jun 2 Mississippi State 7 .359 1 CF 4 0 1 1 1 0
Jun 3 East Carolina 3 .351 1 CF 4 1 0 1 0 1 0
Jun 3 Mississippi State 7 .354 1 CF 4 0 2 0 2 0
Jun 4 North Carolina 3 .361 1 CF 5 0 3 3 1 0
Jun 4 North Carolina 3 .364 1 CF 4 1 2 1 1 4 0
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