It’s become known as the Heisman Trophy of college baseball, and Georgia Bulldog Charlie Condon has won it: Condon was named Thursday the winner of this year’s Dick Howser Trophy, given annually to the nation’s best college baseball player. Condon and the Diamond Dogs made it to the NCAA Super Regionals, just one step shy of the College World Series that begins today in Omaha.
From Mike Griffith, DawgNation…
Georgia baseball has no plans of slowing down, even as Charlie Condon moves on.
Condon, named on Wednesday as the Dick Howser Trophy winner as the best player in college baseball, is widely projected to be a top pick in the upcoming Major League Baseball Draft (July 14-16).
But even as the likes of Condon and Athens Regional MVP Corey Collins and former All-SEC Defense catcher Fernando Gonzalez move on, there is great promise for the program to keep moving forward.
‘I’m going to work sun up to sun down to do that,” Johnson said at his final press conference of the season. Read more…