It was only fitting that Tiffany Clark Gusman found out about her selection to the Louisiana Athletics Hall of Fame in front of a crowd. After all, she wowed the rabid softball fan base at UL’s Lamson Park for four years with her hitting ability.

This time, though, the crowd consisted of her eighth-grade class at Earhart Middle School in Riverside, California, last month, when the school principal and her husband — former Ragin’ Cajun baseball player Dan Gusman — walked into her classroom to hand her a cellphone and make a surprise announcement.