Eric Gilmore swung a big bat in two seasons as a Demon baseball player in 1995-96, and now he's trying to swing good deals for NSU students in the book business.
Now open across from the NSU campus is "The Demon Bookstore," owned and operated by Gilmore.
It's the lead story in this week's Current Sauce, the student newspaper.
Gilmore cracked 13 home runs as an outfielder and first baseman, nine when he started every game on the 1995 Southland Conference championship team. He was also part of a 1996 team that, despite a relatively pedestrian (by recent NSU baseball standards) 34-27 record, swept a two-game series at Alex Box Stadium over the eventual national champion LSU Tigers. That '96 team went 14-8 over the final 22 regular-season games and reached the SLC Tournament finals, losing an extra-innings 8-7 decision in the championship game.
Gilmore started 74 games in two seasons, playing in 93, and had 53 RBI as an outfielder and first baseman.
Since getting his NSU degree in business, Gilmore has been in the textbook sales business covering a territory from Texarkana to Houston as a representative for Pearson Prentice Hall, a leading textbook publisher, according to the Current Sauce report by Jim Mustian.
The new bookstore is located in the Days Inn building, in the space once occupied by the hotel restaurant and Old Fashioned Hamburgers, a dining favorite during Gilmore's days as a Demon baseballer. He plans to decorate his store with lots of NSU gear including his old NSU jerseys.
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