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With College Baseball being a niche sport especially in the 1980s, things changed when Rafael Palmeiro and Will Clark made their way to Mississippi State and brought the sport into the mainstream with the help of the new channel called ESPN. The duo became known as thunder and lightning and helped Mississippi State make it to the College World Series in 1985, though they would lose in the semis to Miami. Clark and Palmeiro would go on to have great MLB careers, but off field issues involving the two and Palmeiro's steroid use led to conflict.
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