Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball

Minnesota Golden Gophers
2025 Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball team
Founded	1876
University	University of Minnesota
Head coach	Ty McDevitt (1st season)
Conference	Big Ten
Location	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Home stadium	Siebert Field (primary) U.S. Bank Stadium (secondary) (Capacity: 1,420 (Siebert))
Nickname	Golden Gophers
Colors	Maroon and gold [1]
NCAA Tournament champions
1956, 1960, 1964
College World Series appearances
1956, 1960, 1964, 1973, 1977
NCAA regional champions
1977, 2018
NCAA Tournament appearances
1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2016, 2018
Conference tournament champions
1982, 1985, 1988, 1992, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2010, 2018
Regular season conference champions
1933, 1935, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1992, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2016, 2018

For information on all University of Minnesota sports, see Minnesota Golden Gophers

The Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The team competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I and are members of the Big Ten Conference.

Home stadiums

Siebert Field

Main article: Siebert Field

Siebert Field is the home baseball park for the Golden Gophers. The Old Siebert Field hosted its first game on April 23, 1971 – a 2–1 Gopher victory over Creighton. On June 11, 2012, Old Siebert Field was demolished to begin construction on the new Seibert Field. The new Siebert Field hosted its first game on April 5, 2013, which the Gophers won 7–0 over Ohio State. ^[2]

U.S. Bank Stadium

Main article: U.S. Bank Stadium

U.S. Bank Stadium is the alternate stadium for the Golden Gophers. First used for baseball in 2017, it is primarily used for February and March games, including non-conference home games including a major pre-conference season tournament featuring top teams from major conferences. Like its predecessor, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, on the same site, the indoor venue allowed the team to play home games when most cold-weather teams had to play road games, and allows for additional home games for the team, a huge advantage in the Big Ten conference. Roughly 40% of home games are played at U. S. Bank Stadium.

Year-by-year results

Season	Coach	Record		Notes
		Overall	Big Ten
1876	Unknown	0–1	—
1877	No Team
1878	Unknown	2–1	—
1879	No Team
1880	Unknown	0–1	—
1881	No Team
1882	No Team
1883	Unknown	2–1	—
1884		2–1	—
1885		3–1–1	—
1886		2–0	—
1887		1–2–1	—
1888		0–1	—
1889		2–1	—
1890		1–1	—
1891		5–3	—
1892		3–4	1–2
1893		3–5	3–3
1894		9–5	0–2
1895		2–2	0–1
1896		1–2	—
1897		2–2	—
1898		3–2	—
1899		8–5	—
1900		17–11–1	4–3
1901		22–7–1	4–3
1902		13–10	3–2
1903	No Team
1904	Unknown	10–9	0–5
1905	No Team
1906	Unknown	10–10	3–3
1907		16–6	3–1
1908	Walter Wilmot	17–5–1	6–2
1909		9–7–2	0–5
1910	Walter Wilmot & Perry Werden	10–9	3–5
1911	Wilkie Clarke	13–7–1	4–4
1912	No Team
1913	Dr. Denny Sullivan	9–5–3	3–3
1914		10–9	4–6
1915	Frosty Thomas	13–6	3–6
1916	No Team
1917	No Team
1918	No Team
1919	No Team
1920	No Team
1921	No Team
1922	Bee Lawler & Russ Ford	6–11	2–6
1923	Lee Watrous, Jr.	4–11	3–7
1924		12–9	5–3
1925		11–9	6–6
1926		5–10	3–5
1927	George Clark	5–8–1	3–4
1928	Dutch Bergman	3–12–1	2–9
1929		6–11	4–7
1930		17–12	4–6
1931	Frank McCormick	11–11	2–7
1932		9–9	5–5
1933		12–2	6–1	Big Ten Champions
1934		7–9	4–8
1935		17–13	8–3	Big Ten Champions
1936		17–7	7–4
1937		11–9	6–5
1938		11–11	4–7
1939		16–13	7–5
1940		15–6	6–4
1941		14–9	7–5
1942	Dave MacMillan	11–10	5–7
1943		14–3–1	7–3
1944		13–5	5–3
1945		10–4	4–4
1946		14–5	6–4
1947		4–9	2–9
1948	Dick Siebert	14–12	4–8
1949		14–15–1	4–7–1
1950		11–17	1–8
1951		15–10	6–6
1952		17–15	7–7
1953		19–9	7–5
1954		17–14	6–9
1955		23–9	10–5
1956		33–9	11–2	Big Ten Champions, College World Series Champions
1957		16–8–2	6–5
1958		26–7	11–3	Big Ten Champions, NCAA Regional
1959		22–8	10–2	Big Ten Champions, NCAA Regional
1960		34–7–1	12–2–1	Big Ten Champions, College World Series Champions
1961		21–9	12–3
1962		14–16	3–10
1963		24–11	9–6
1964		31–12	11–3	Big Ten Champions, College World Series Champions
1965		17–11	5–7
1966		27–10–2	11–2–1
1967		32–10	12–5
1968		35–9	14–2	Big Ten Champions, NCAA Regional
1969		36–12	15–3	Big Ten Champions, NCAA Regional
1970		34–16	15–3	Big Ten Champions, NCAA Regional
1971		28–13	12–6
1972		15–13	9–5
1973		25–13	11–5	Big Ten Champions, College World Series
1974		25–13	11–5	Big Ten Champions, NCAA Regional
1975		20–11	13–40
1976		38–11	12–6	NCAA Regional
1977		39–12	15–3	Big Ten Champions, College World Series
1978		25–17	7–7
1979	George Thomas	25–14	12–6
1980		33–13	14–4
1981		37–16	13–3	Big Ten West Division Champions, NCAA Regional
1982	John Anderson	33–22–1	8–8	Big Ten Tournament champions, NCAA Regional
1983		27–21	12–2	Big Ten West Division Champions
1984		31–20	11–5	Big Ten West Division Champions
1985		33–23	9–7	Big Ten Tournament champions, NCAA Regional
1986		40–19	10–5	Big Ten West Division Champions
1987		36–25	12–4	Big Ten West Division Champions, NCAA Regional
1988		38–28	17–11	Big Ten Tournament champions, NCAA Regional
1989		31–22–1	15–12
1990		36–24–1	19–9
1991		37–27	18–10	NCAA Regional
1992		42–21	18–10	Big Ten Tournament champions, NCAA Regional
1993		43–18	17–9	NCAA Regional
1994		42–21	21–7	NCAA Regional
1995		31–28	16–12
1996		30–26	15–12
1997		30–24	15–10
1998		45–15	19–9	Big Ten Tournament champions, NCAA Regional
1999		46–18	21–7	NCAA Regional
2000		38–24	20–8	Big Ten Champions, NCAA Regional
2001		39–21	19–8	Big Ten Tournament champions, NCAA Regional
2002		32–26	18–10	Big Ten Champions
2003		40–22	24–6	Big Ten Champions, NCAA Regional
2004		38–23	21–10	Big Ten Champions, Big Ten Tournament champions, NCAA Regional
2005		33–29	17–15
2006		34–26	17–14
2007		41–18	18–9	NCAA Regional
2008		20–35	10–21
2009		40–19	17–6	NCAA Regional
2010		32–30	15–9	Big Ten Champions, Big Ten Tournament champions, NCAA Regional
2011		25–24	13–11
2012		29–27	11–13
2013		32–22	13–8
2014		27–24	13–11
2015		21–30	9–15
2016		34–20	16–7	Big Ten Champions, NCAA Regional
2017		36–21	15–8
2018		41–13	18–4	Big Ten Champions, Big Ten Tournament champions, NCAA Regional, NCAA Super Regional
2019		29–27	15–8
2020		8–10	0–0	Season canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021		6–31	6–31	Big Ten opponents only due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022		16–36	6–18
2023		18–34	10–14
2024		25–23	11–13

Individual awards

All Americans

1952 Gene Elder, 2B Paul Giel, P 1953 Paul Giel, P 1954 Paul Giel, P 1956 Jerry Kindall, SS Jerry Thomas, P 1958 Jack McCartan, OF 1959 Ron Causton, OF 1960 Larry Bertelsen, P Wayne Knapp, P 1961 Larry Bertelsen, P Wayne Knapp, P 1963 Jon Andresen 1964 Ron Wojciak, C

1967 Dennis Zacho, 1B 1969 Noel Jenke, OF Mike Walseth, 1B 1973 Dave Winfield, P 1976 Paul Molitor, SS 1977 Paul Molitor, SS Dan Morgan, P 1982 Greg Olson, C 1990 Brian Raabe, 2B Dan Wilson, C 1991 Brent Gates, SS 1992 Mark Merila, 2B 1993 Mark Merila, 2B

1994 Mark Merila, 2B 1995 Shane Gunderson, C 1998 Robb Quinlan, 1B 1999 Robb Quinlan, 1B 2001 Jack Hanahan, OF 2002 Luke Appert, 2B 2003 Luke Appert, 2B Glen Perkins, P 2004 Glen Perkins, P 2009 Derek McCallum, 2B

College World Series

College World Series Most Outstanding Player Award

Jerry Thomas, P, 1956

John Erickson, 2B – 1960

Dave Winfield, OF/P – 1973

All College World Series

1960 John Erickson, 2B Carl Rolloff, 3B Dave Pflepsen, SS Bob Wasko, P

1964 Bill Davis, 1B Dewey Markus, 2B Dan Hoffman, OF Ron Wojciak, C Joe Pollack, P

1973 Dave Winfield, P

Conference Awards

Big Ten Player of the Year Terry Steinbach – 1983 Brent Gates, SS – 1991 Mark Merila, 2B – 1994 Shane Gunderson, P – 1995 Robb Quinlan, 1B – 1999 Jack Hannahan, 3B – 2001 Luke Appert, 2B – 2002, 2003 Matt Fiedler, P/OF - 2016 Big Ten Coach of the Year John Anderson – 1982, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2016 Big Ten Pitcher of the Year C.J. Woodrow – 2002 Glen Perkins – 2004 Big Ten Freshman of the Year Dan Wilson, C – 1998 Mark Merila, 2B – 1991 Glen Perkins, P – 2003

Big Ten Tournament Most Valuable Player Terry Steinbach, C – 1982 Jon Beckman, OF – 1985 Tim McIntosh, OF – 1986 Vince Palyan, OF – 1988 Scott Bakkum, P – 1992 Shane Gunderson, P – 1995 Mark Groebner, OF – 1998 Jack Hannahan, 3B – 2001 Glen Perkins, P – 2004 Kyle Knudson, C – 2010

Current and former major league players

• Frank Brosseau
• Jim Brower
• Fred Bruckbauer
• J.T. Bruett
• Ralph Capron
• Steve Comer
• Bill Davis
• Cole De Vries
• Brian Denman
• Heinie Elder
• Harry Elliott
• Bobby Fenwick
• Brent Gates
• John Gaub
• Paul Giel
• Jack Hannahan
• Bryan Hickerson
• Jerry Kindall
• Kerry Ligtenberg
• Tim McIntosh
• Ben Meyer
• Max Meyer
• Paul Molitor
• Denny Neagle
• Greg Olson
• Glen Perkins
• Robb Quinlan
• Brian Raabe
• Mike Sadek
• Jeff Schmidt
• Terry Steinbach
• George Thomas
• Jerry Ujdur
• Terrin Vavra
• Dan Wilson
• Dave Winfield

Source: Baseball Reference

References

1. "Colors and Type | University Relations" . Retrieved December 20, 2022.
2. "2012–2013 Schedule". gophersports.com. Retrieved July 10, 2018.

External links

• Official website