Harvard Crimson baseball
| Harvard Crimson | |
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| Founded | 1865 |
| University | Harvard University |
| Conference |
Ivy Rolfe Division |
| Location | Cambridge, MA |
| Head coach | Bill Decker (4th year) |
| Home stadium |
Joseph J. O'Donnell Field (Capacity: 1,600) |
| Nickname | Crimson |
| Colors | Crimson, White, and Black |
| College World Series appearances | |
| 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974 | |
| NCAA Tournament appearances | |
| 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005 | |
| Conference tournament champions | |
| 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005 | |
| Conference champions | |
| EIBL: 1936, 1939, 1955, 1958, 1964, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984 Ivy: 1955, 1958, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985 Ivy Rolfe: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 |
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The Harvard Crimson baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball team of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The program has been a member of the Ivy League since the conference officially began sponsoring baseball at the start of the 1993 season. The team plays at Joseph J. O'Donnell Field, located across the Charles River from Harvard's main campus. Bill Decker has been the program's head coach since the 2013 season.
The program has appeared in four College World Series and 14 NCAA Tournaments. It has won five Ivy League Championship Series, eight Rolfe Division titles, 15 EIBL regular season titles, and 12 Ivy League regular season titles.
As of the start of the 2014 Major League Baseball season, 12 former Crimson players have appeared in Major League Baseball.
Harvard College's first season of baseball came in 1865; the team went 6–0 that year. It played one intercollegiate game (against Williams) and five against semi-professional teams. Organized baseball at the college had begun a few years earlier, when "class nines" (the teams of each of Harvard College's four class years) were first fielded; the first of these was the '66 Baseball Club, formed in 1862 by members of that year's freshman class. Despite these early years of competition, 1865 was the school's first varsity intercollegiate season.
Along with rowing, baseball was popular at Harvard in the late 19th century. A newspaper review of the 1871 book Four Years at Yale says that the book includes "interesting accounts of the sports common in colleges, especially baseball and rowing, and the principal matches which have taken place between Harvard and Yale." An 1884 edition of the Washington Bee reprinted a Lowell Courier humor section piece that reads, "Sixty Harvard freshman have dropped their Latin, eighty their Greek and 100 their mathematics. None of them have dropped their baseball or their boating, however, and college culture is still safe."
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