Finalists Announced for the 2025 Ferriss Trophy presented by the MBCI and Pearl River Resort Jackson, Miss. (May 7, 2025) – The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame & Museum is proud to announce the five finalists for the 2025 Ferriss Trophy, awarded annually to the most outstanding college baseball player in Mississippi. Named in honor […]
Jackson, Miss. (May 22, 2023) – Catcher/Outfielder Kemp Aldermen of the University of Mississippi has won the 2023 Ferriss Trophy. The award sponsored by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and the Pearl River Resort is given annually to the Most Outstanding College Baseball Player in Mississippi. Alderman was presented the award today at a […]
Jackson, Miss. (May 23, 2022) – Pitcher Tanner Hall of the University of Southern Mississippi became the first pitcher since 2018 to win the coveted Ferriss Trophy presented by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and the Pearl River Resort. Southern’s Nick Sandlin was the last pitcher to win the award, and four years later […]
In a year where 17 different players from 8 different schools received votes for the Ferriss Trophy, which is presented to the Most Outstanding Baseball Player in Mississippi, it isn’t surprising that the voting for the finalists was close. The five finalists will be in attendance on Monday, May 23rd when the Mississippi Band of […]
The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum along with the Pearl River Resort and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is pleased to announce that Hall of Fame Baseball Coach Ron Polk will be the featured speaker at the presentation of the 2022 Ferriss Trophy. The Ferriss Trophy is named in memory of the […]
By Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum has a new introductory film in its newly named Gertrude C. Ford Foundation Theatre. The new, 15-minute presentation was produced through a generous grant from the Jackson-based Gertrude C. Ford Foundation. The museum, which turned 20 last July, still showed the original […]
Today is Boo Ferriss’s 91st birthday. Our gift: A remembrance of one of the greatest days in a great life. May 3, 2004. It is now official: Delta St. baseball best in the country MONTGOMERY – Forty years ago, 42-year-old Boo Ferriss carved a baseball diamond out of a Delta beanfield. He had a […]
