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BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Former World Series champion and MLB All-Star second baseman Tony Womack will be the featured speaker at the 2015 Campbell Baseball First Pitch Dinner, January 24 at 6 p.m. at Fred McCall Court inside the John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center.
Prior to dinner, a VIP reception with Tony Womack will open at 5 p.m. A meet and greet with the 2015 Fighting Camels will begin at 5:30 p.m. Tickets start at $30.
VIP tables are $500 and include eight tickets to the dinner, VIP reception and team meet and greet, as well as eight autographed baseballs and a special gift from CU Baseball.
Individual VIP tickets are $65 and include one ticket to dinner, VIP reception and the team meet and greet, along with an autographed baseball.
Former Campbell letterman Morgan Harris will also be honored as the 2015 CU Baseball Alumnus of the Year.
For tickets and more information, please contact head coach Justin Haire at hairej@campbell.edu or 910-893-1338, or director of baseball operations Tyler Robinson at trobinson@campbell.edu or 910-814-5510.
Best known for his heroics in the 2001 World Series, Tony Womack spent 13 seasons in Major League Baseball, terrorizing base paths along the way. Six years after he was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the seventh round of the 1991 first year player draft, Womack burst onto the major league scene as a rookie in 1997. As the Pirates leadoff hitter he had 178 hits, including 26 doubles and led all National Leaguers with 60 stolen bases en route to earning an All-Star selection.
After another successful campaign in Pittsburgh in 1998, Womack was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks prior to the 1999 season. He wound up leading the NL in stolen bases for a third consecutive year that season, swiping 72 bags.
Womack would cement his Diamondbacks legacy in the 2001 postseason. With Arizona trailing the New York Yankees 2-1 in the bottom of the ninth inning in Game Seven of the World Series, Womack smacked a double off closer Mariano Rivera to tie the game. Two batters later, teammate Luis Gonzalez singled in the winning run and the Diamondbacks won the Fall Classic in dramatic fashion. Womack would spend two more seasons in Arizona before being moved to the Colorado Rockies, eventually retiring in in 2006. He finished his career with 1,353 hits and 363 stolen bases.
Womack currently lives in the Charlotte, N.C. area with his wife.
The Camels will open the 2015 season on February 13, hosting Northern Kentucky at Jim Perry Stadium.
Campbell finished the 2014 season with a 41-21 overall record, tying for the second-most wins in school history. The Camels claimed the Big South Tournament Championship in Rock Hill, S.C., earning the school's second NCAA Regional berth.
In the Columbia Regional, No. 4 seed CU picked up its first-ever NCAA Regional win, knocking off third-seeded Old Dominion 4-1 in 12 innings.
Campbell has won 131 games over the last three years, and is one of just eight programs nationally with three consecutive 40-plus win seasons.
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