Northwestern Wildcats baseball

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Northwestern Wildcats baseball
Baseball current event.svg 2026 Northwestern Wildcats baseball team
Northwestern Wildcats logo.svg
Founded1869;157 years ago (1869)
University Northwestern University
Head coach Ben Greenspan (3rd season)
Conference Big Ten
Location Evanston, Illinois
Home stadium Rocky Miller Park
(Capacity: 600)
Nickname Wildcats
ColorsPurple and white [1]
   
NCAA tournament appearances
1957
Conference regular season champions
1940, 1957

The Northwestern Wildcats baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States. The team competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I and are members of the Big Ten Conference.

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The Wildcats have been to 1 NCAA tournament in 1957. In 2017, the Wildcats made it to the Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament championship. [2]

Stadiums

Rocky and Berenice Miller Park

Rocky and Berenice Miller Park is a baseball stadium in Evanston. [3] It has been the Wildcats' home stadium since 1943. The stadium is named after J. Roscoe Miller, Northwestern president from 1949 to 1970, and his wife. In 2013, Miller's daughter, Roxy, and her husband Richard Pepper, donated to renovate the stadium. [4]

Head coaches

Year(s)CoachSeasonsW–L–TPct
1888 Billy Sunday 16–4.600
1894–1897 John Kedzie 438–22.633
1898–1902 W. J. Bryan 530–53.361
1903 Horace Butterworth 13–13.188
1904 Harry Fleager 11–11.083
1905 Harley Parker 17–9.438
1906 Charles M. Hollister 13–7.300
1907–1908 A. B. Cunningham 24–14.222
1909–1911 A. G. Rundle 34–25.138
1912 L. C. Holsinger 13–6–1.350
1913 Dennis Grady 16–6.500
1914–1916 Fred J. Murphy 311–17–1.397
1917 Willie McGill 14–4.500
1921 Jack Sawtelle 16–10.375
1922 Henry Symanski 12–8.200
1923–1928, 1942–1943 Maury Kent 833–78–1.299
1929–1935 Paul Stewart 760–75.444
1936–1939 Burt Ingwersen 435–51.407
1940–1941 Stan Klores 225–24.510
1944–1946 Wesley Fry 328–28–1.500
1947–1948 Don Heap 221–25–1.457
1949–1961 Freddie Lindstrom 13163–145–2.529
1962–1981 George McKinnon 20304–391–6.438
1982–1986 Ron Wellman 5180–97–4.648
1987 Larry Cochell 123–20–1.613
1988–2015 Paul Stevens 28674–836–6.447
2016–2021 Spencer Allen 6101–152.399
2022 Josh Reynolds 124–27.471
2023 Jim Foster 110–40.200
2024–present Ben Greenspan 118–34.346
Totals301281,827–2,232–24.450

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NCAA tournament

Northwestern has made the NCAA Division I baseball tournament once. [6]

YearRegionRoundOpponentResult
1957 District 4Upper Round 1
Lower Round
Lower Final
Finals Game 1
Finals Game 2		Western Michigan
Alma
Western Michigan
Notre Dame		L 1–11
W 11–2
W 10–9 (10)
W 9–2
L 1–6

Player awards

First-team All-Americans

The following is a listing of the selections listed in the 2025 Northwestern Baseball media guide. [5]

Big Ten award winners

References

  1. ↑ "Northwestern University's Guide to Using Marks, Colors, Trademarks, and Logos" (PDF). September 21, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
  2. ↑ Zucker, Joseph. "Iowa Cruises to 2017 Big Ten Baseball Championship over Northwestern". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  3. ↑ "Rocky Miller Park". Northwestern Wildcats. Archived from the original on December 8, 2009. Retrieved October 24, 2009. 10/24/09
  4. ↑ "The Dream Has Become a Reality: Rocky and Berenice Miller Park". Northwestern Wildcats. March 30, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  5. 1 2 "2025 Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Northwestern Wildcats .
  6. ↑ Warren, Peter (May 25, 2018). "Baseball: Six decades ago, Northwestern made it to college baseball's biggest stage". The Daily Northwestern . Retrieved July 7, 2020.
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