A winded Henri Lartigue stood in left field with a beaming smile from ear to ear on Saturday afternoon. A couple of elated young fans rushed up to him, asking for his gloves and offering their congratulations.
“Hold on, I’ve got to talk to these guys,” Lartigue gently said with a smile, as he approached the group of media gathered, waiting to hear about the scene he had just created at Oxford-University Stadium.
The man of the hour had just escaped a powder blue mob at home plate made up of his teammates joyously celebrating the junior catcher’s three-run walk off shot to right field that wrote the final chapter of Ole Miss’(39-13, 17-10) regular season at Swayze field with a 7-5 win and a sweep over Kentucky.