The USC Trojan have twelve national championships, easily the most in NCAA Division One baseball history. However USC baseball has struggled in recent years and haven’t made the NCAA tournament since 2005, let alone the College World Series. In 2013 Dan Hubbs was thrust into
During the 2013 season, there were sixteen Jewish baseball players in the big leagues. They are Ryan Braun, Craig Breslow, Ike Davis, Scott Feldman, Nate Freiman, Sam Fuld, Ryan Kalish, Ian Kinsler, Ryan Lavarnway, Boston Red Sox, Jason Marquis, Kevin Pillar, Josh Satin, Michael Schwimer,
The Stanford Cardinal baseball team is coming of somewhat of a down season for their lofty standards. In 2013 Mark Marquess’s squad finished 33-22, but only eked out a 16-14 record in the PAC-12 and missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2010.
The minor leagues consists of independent leagues, foreign leagues and development leagues for MLB teams. For the purpose of this article we are going to focus on the developmental leagues, which are made up with what commonly called “farm” teams. (Because they are “growing” players
The infield rule played a big role in the 2012 National League wild card game. In the eighth inning of the winner-take-all game between the Atlanta Braves and the St. Louis Cardinals Atlanta shortstop Andrelton Simmons came to bat with runners on first and second
James Madison University has been participating in collegiate baseball since 1974. They are members of the Colonial Athletic Association. Their nickname is the Dukes and their team colors are purple and gold. The play at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park, a twelve hundred seat
Texas Christian University baseball’s first year in the Big 12 came with it some growing pains. The Horned Frogs finished the season 29 and 28 and ended their nine season run of NCAA Tournament berths. Jim Schlossnagle, the 2010 National Coach of The Year, hopes
2013 was quite the year for UCLA baseball as the Bruins made their third College World Series in four years and won their first ever baseball national championship. Coach John Savage and the boys will try to make it back-to-back in 2014. But to do
The recruiting process for college baseball can be intense and cut-throat. This is because Division 1 college baseball programs have only 11.7 scholarships to divide among their rosters of thirty to thirty-five student athletes. D2 programs have nine, NAIA teams have 12 and D3 programs
By Major League Baseball standards NCAA baseball stats can get pretty crazy. Just in 2013 six Division one players surpassed the magical mark of a .400 batting for the year. And on the pitching side three qualified hurlers managed to keep their ERAs under 1.00.