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How Ole Miss' Will Furniss is following in his fat...

ESPN · Jun 14, 2026, 12:55 PM

Key takeaways

  • Eddy Furniss started at the first base line during Mississippi's batting practice, worked his way through the center, then the left field seats, snapping and videotaping.
  • "I don't have any pictures of me in the College World Series.
  • Furniss doesn't really care about that; it's more of a statement of how quickly time flies by, and how cellphones can make a person feel old.

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Eddy Furniss started at the first base line during Mississippi's batting practice, worked his way through the center, then the left field seats, snapping and videotaping.

"I don't have any pictures of me in the College World Series. I just don't. If you try to find film of me, I mean ... it's not on YouTube."

Furniss doesn't really care about that; it's more of a statement of how quickly time flies by, and how cellphones can make a person feel old. It has been 30 years since Furniss won his first national championship for LSU at the Men's College World Series, and now his son, Will, is in Omaha trying to do the same for Mississippi.

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