Sports The making of a legend By Thad Mumau
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Top | Chris Cammack, center, is one of the first inductees to the North Carolina State University Baseball Hall of Fame. The
school recognized Cammack with a plaque, above, at a home football game this fall.
With him are current baseball coach Elliott Avent, left, and Cammack’s son, Todd.
new Baseball Hall of Fame considered hundreds of former Wolfpack players for the inaugural class, and two stood far above the rest. Limiting that first class to Cammack and Mike Caldwell crowns them as top-notch players from a program that officially dates back to 1903. The college roommates will be joined
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by Sam Esposito, their Wolfpack coach, in formal induction ceremonies later
hris Cammack has achieved legendary status at North Carolina State University. The school’s selection committee for the
this spring, but earlier this fall, they were honored during halftime of the home football game versus Florida State University. Plaques will hang at Doak Field to commemorate their Hall of Fame membership. “This is a tremendous honor,”
Cammack said. “I’m obviously flattered, by being selected to State’s Hall of Fame and by being one of the first two players chosen. With all of the baseball that has been played by State teams and all of the great players, this is quite an honor.” “That I’m going in with my roomie
makes it very, very special.” Cammack, a third baseman, twice led the Atlantic Coast Conference in
