Coaching Legend Corky Palmer Passes Away At 68 – By Ricky Nobile

Aug 11, 2022

The college baseball world lost a legend yesterday.

Former Southern Miss baseball coach Corky Palmer passed away on August 10th. Palmer, led the Golden Eagles to the 2009 College World Series as the head coach and is enshrined at the MS Sports Hall of Fame.

About The Author

Ricky Nobile

RICKY NOBILE has been drawing editorial cartoons on Mississippi sports and politics since 1972. His political cartoons are presently featured in 40 Mississippi newspapers, as well as the Mississippi Business Journal each week. He recently published a collection of his work in a book "Home Grown, Home Drawn, 45 Years of Mississippi Editorial Cartoons". The book covers from Governors Bill Waller to Phil Bryant along with many Senators and Legislators and sports cartoons on Brett Favre and the Mannings. He attended Mississippi Delta Community College and The University of Southern Mississippi. Ricky and his wife, Mary, live in Purvis, Mississippi, where they create and illustrate children's books, specialty coloring books and draw caricatures for special events and weddings.