Details for Mike Martin memorial service Saturday at Dick Howser Stadium
Courtesy of Florida State Sports Information:
Florida State University will host a memorial service for former baseball coach Mike Martin on Saturday at noon on Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium. Details for the event are below:
- Parking is free and available in the Flying High Circus and Doak Campbell Stadium lots. Due to construction, the parking lot in front of the Moore Athletic Center is not available.
- The Haggard Plaza gate on the first-base side of Howser Stadium will open at 10:45 a.m. and will be the only entrance for the memorial service. The left field and home plate gates will not be available.
- Guestbooks will be available in Haggard Plaza for signing upon entry.
- Guests need to be seated by 11:45 a.m.
- Per Coach Martin’s request, guests are asked to wear ‘Seminole casual’ and no ties.
- Seating in the grandstands is first-come, first-serve. FSU baseball alumni, former coaches and staff and their families will have reserved seating in sections 5, 6 and 7. The 2024 baseball team will have reserved seating in the lower portion of section 8. Overflow seating will be in the right field bleachers only.
- Coach Martin’s memorial service will not be streamed live.
- Concessions will not be operating.
- Fan Day will take place Sunday, Feb. 18, against Butler. Kids in their little league jerseys will get in free and can run the bases postgame. The team will sign autographs following the game.
- The FSU softball game originally scheduled for 12:30 p.m. on Saturday will now start at 1 p.m.
Martin, Florida State’s legendary head coach for 40 seasons and the winningest coach in college baseball history, passed away Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, after a three-year battle with Lewy body dementia.
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