UMass Minutemen baseball

UMass Minutemen baseball
UMass Minutemen baseball
2025 UMass Minutemen baseball team
Founded	1877
University	University of Massachusetts Amherst
Head coach	Matt Reynolds (8th season)
Conference	Atlantic 10
Location	Amherst, Massachusetts
Home stadium	Earl Lorden Field
Nickname	Minutemen
Colors	Maroon and white;
College World Series appearances
	1954, 1969
NCAA Tournament appearances
	1954, 1955, 1956, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1978, 1995, 1996
Conference tournament champions
	Yankee: 1952, 1957, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1980; A-10: 1980, 1994, 1995, 1996

Last updated March 04, 2025

The UMass Minutemen baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.^[2] The team is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. Massachusetts' first baseball team was fielded in 1877. The team plays its home games at Earl Lorden Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. The Minutemen are coached by Matt Reynolds.

Seasons

Statistics overview
Season	Coach	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
UMass (Independent)(1877–1951)
1877	No Coach	4-1
1878	No Coach	No Games
1879	No Coach	No Games
1880	No Coach	No Games
1881	No Coach	No Games
1882	No Coach	1-1
1883	No Coach	1-0
1884	No Coach	0-1
1885	No Coach	1-0
1886	No Coach	No Games
1887	No Coach	4-6
1888	No Coach	2-2
1889	No Coach	5-2
1890	No Coach	No Games
1891	No Coach	4-3
1892	No Coach	5-2
1893	No Coach	5-3
1894	No Coach	0-7
1895	No Coach	2-4
1896	No Coach	3-3
1897	No Coach	3-5
1898	No Coach	3-7
1899	No Coach	0-1
1900	No Coach	3-7
1901	No Coach	8-3
1902	No Coach	2-6-1
1903	No Coach	3-11
1904	Bowler	4-10
1905	No Coach	7-9
1906	No Coach	5-10-1
1907	No Coach	5-13
1908	Breckenridge	10-6
1909	No Coach	8-9
1910	No Coach	5-11
1911	Fitzmaurice	8-6-1
1912	Fitzmaurice	9-6
1913	Fitzmaurice	9-2
1914	Fitzmaurice	10-6
1915	Fitzmaurice	7-8
1916	Fitzmaurice	3-8-1
1917	No Coach	3-3
1918	No Coach	No Games
1919	No Coach	1-11
1920	Gore	6-8
1921	Gore	13-4
1922	Gore	9-8
1923	Collins	1-11
1924	Grayson	5-7
1925	Ball	6-8-2
1926	Ball	4-12
1927	Ball	7-8
1928	Ball	2-9
1929	Ball	3-11
1930	Ball	7-9
1931	Ball	6-10
1932	Taube	9-6
1933	Taube	7-5
1934	Taube	8-5
1935	Taube	7-6
1936	Caraway	2-10-1
1937	Caraway	11-3
1938	Caraway	10-3
1939	Caraway	14-5-1
1940	Caraway	3-8
1941	Reid	3-11
1942	Reid	5-6
1943	Gill	Played High School Teams
1944	Briggs	Played High School Teams
1945	Eck	Played High School Teams
1946	Reid	3-7
1947	Reid	3-12
1948	Lorden	2-11
1949	Lorden	5-11
1950	Lorden	5-7
1951	Lorden	10-8
UMass (Yankee Conference ^[3])(1952–1980)
1952	Lorden	12-7	4-2		Yankee Conference champions
1953	Lorden	11-8	3-2
1954	Lorden	15-7	4-2		College World Series NCAA Tournament New England Champions
1955	Lorden	15-5	5-3		NCAA Tournament
1956	Lorden	10-6-1	7-1-1		NCAA Tournament
1957	Lorden	11-9	6-2		Yankee Conference champions
1958	Lorden	7-11	5-5
1959	Lorden	10-6	4-5
1960	Lorden	10-7	5-5
1961	Lorden	11-5-1	7-2-1
1962	Lorden	15-5	7-3
1963	Lorden	10-7	2-6
1964	Lorden	7-10-1	3-6-1
1965	Lorden	7-11	6-4
1966	Lorden	14-6	7-3		NCAA Tournament Yankee Conference champions
1967	Bergquist	17-11	8-2		NCAA Tournament New England champions Yankee Conference champions
1968	Bergquist	12-10-1	6-4
1969	Bergquist	22-10	9-1		College World Series NCAA Tournament Yankee Conference champions
1970	Bergquist	15-11	4-6
1971	Bergquist	21-10	12-3		NCAA Tournament Yankee Conference champions
1972	Bergquist	16-5	8-4
1973	Bergquist	21-9-1	6-1		NCAA Tournament Yankee Conference champions
1974	Bergquist	9-16	0-8
1975	Bergquist	11-18	4-4
1976	Bergquist	24-13	3-5
1977	Bergquist	20-17	5-3
1978	Bergquist	23-22	5-3		NCAA Tournament New England champions Yankee Conference champions
1979	Bergquist	24-17	7-3		Yankee Conference champions
UMass (Atlantic 10 Conference)(1980–1982)
1980	Bergquist	19-13-2	7-3		Yankee Conference champions A-10 Champions
1981	Bergquist	22-17	4-4	2nd (East)
1982	Bergquist	14-20-1	3-4	2nd (East)
UMass (ECAC New England)(1983–1983)
1983	Bergquist	20-17	9-5
UMass (Atlantic 10 Conference)(1984–2025)
1984	Bergquist	18-26	3-9	5th (East)
1985	Bergquist	26-19	8-4	2nd (East)	A-10 Tournament First Round
1986	Bergquist	16-24	4-7	4th (East)
1987	Bergquist	22-16	10-4	2nd (East)	A-10 Tournament Final
1988	Stone	36-16	9-7	2nd (East)	A-10 Tournament Final
1989	Stone	17-27	5-11	4th (East)
1990	Stone	26-20	12-4	2nd (East)	A-10 Tournament Semifinal
1991	Stone	26-25-1	10-6	2nd (East)	A-10 Tournament Final
1992	Stone	25-16	11-5	2nd (East)	A-10 Tournament Semifinal
1993	Stone	18-21	9-11	6th
1994	Stone	31-17	19-4	1st	Atlantic 10 Reg. Season Champions A-10 Tournament Semifinal
1995	Stone	38-14	19-5	1st	NCAA Tournament Atlantic 10 Champions
1996	Stone	40-13	15-5	1st (East)	NCAA Tournament Atlantic 10 Champions
1997	Stone	35-12	17-4	1st (East)	Atlantic 10 Eastern Division Champions A-10 Tournament Final
1998	Stone	27-12	15-3	1st (East)	Atlantic 10 Eastern Division Champions A-10 Tournament Semifinal
1999	Stone	26-23	13-8	1st (East)	Atlantic 10 Eastern Division Champions A-10 Tournament Semifinal
2000	Stone	26-22-1	11-9-1	2nd (East)	A-10 Tournament Final
2001	Stone	27-19	15-5	1st	Atlantic 10 Regular Season Champions A-10 Tournament Semifinal
2002	Stone	21-26	9-15	5th (East)
2003	Stone	26-19	14-7	1st (East)	Atlantic 10 Eastern Division Champions A-10 Tournament Final
2004	Stone	19-26	10-14	4th (East)
2005	Stone	16-33	9-15	3rd (East)
2006	Stone	14-30	11-16	11th
2007	Stone	22-25	13-14	8th
2008	Stone	18-27	11-16	11th
2009	Stone	27-26	16-11	4th	A-10 Tournament Quarterfinal
2010	Stone	19-27	13-14	8th
2011	Stone	17-29-1	8-15-1	12th
2012	Stone	22-22	14-10	4th	A-10 Tournament First Round
2013	Stone	14-31	7-17	14th
2014	Stone	15-31	12-15	9th
2015	Stone	16-27	12-12	10th
2016	Stone	18-27	11-13	8th
2017	Stone	15-32	8-16	11th
2018	Reynolds	15-29	6-18	12th
2019	Reynolds	18-27	8-14	10th
2020	Reynolds	1-8			COVID-19 Pandemic
2021	Reynolds	13-30	3-17	6th (North)
2022	Reynolds	22-26-1	8-16	11th
2023	Reynolds	14-35	6-18	11th
2024	Reynolds	24-29	13-11	6th	A-10 Tournament First Round
UMass (Mid-American Conference)(2026–present)
Total:
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

UMass in the NCAA tournament

Year	Coach	Record	Notes
1954	Earl E. Lorden	3–2	Eliminated by Missouri in the CWS.
1955	Earl E. Lorden	1–1	Eliminated by Springfield College in the District 1 playoffs.
1956	Earl E. Lorden	0–1	Eliminated by Vermont in the District 1 playoffs.
1966	Earl E. Lorden	0–1	Eliminated by Boston College in the District 1 playoffs.
1967	Dick Bergquist	3–2	Eliminated by Boston College in the District 1 playoffs.
1969	Dick Bergquist	4–2	Eliminated by Arizona State in the CWS.
1971	Dick Bergquist	0–2	Eliminated by Harvard in the District 1 playoffs.
1973	Dick Bergquist	0–2	Eliminated by Delaware in the District 1 playoffs.
1978	Dick Bergquist	0–2	Eliminated by Delaware in the Northeast Regional.
1995	Mike Stone	0–2	Eliminated by Texas A&M in the Atlantic II Regional.
1996	Mike Stone	3–2	Eliminated by Florida in the East Regional.
Totals		14–19	11 appearances
The format of the tournament has changed through the years.

Coaching history

Tenure	Coach	Seasons	Record	Pct.
1877–1903 1905–1907	No Coach	35	89–138–1	.393
1904	Pat Bowler	1	4–10	.286
1908	W. Breckenridge	1	10–6	.625
1911–1916	William Fitzmaurice	6	46–21–2	.681
1920–1922	Harold Gore	3	10–20	.333
1923	Herbert Collins	1	1–11	.083
1924	Emory Grayson	1	5–7	.417
1925–1931	Lorin Ball	7	35–57–2	.383
1932–1935	Melvin Taube	4	31–22	.585
1936–1940	Elbert Caraway	5	40–29–2	.577
1941–1942/1946-1947	Fancis Reid	4	14–36	.380
1945	Thomas Eck	1	1–6–1	.193
1948–1966	Earl Lorden	19	187–147–3	.567
1967–1987	Dick Bergquist	21	392–321–5	.549
1988–2017	Mike Stone	30	697–695–3	.501
2018–present	Matt Reynolds	7	107–184–1	.366
Totals	15 coaches	148 seasons	1692–1732–20	.491

UMass alumni in the MLB

References

↑ "University of Massachusetts Amherst Athletics Official Style Guide" (PDF). Retrieved July 4, 2021.
↑ "Massachusetts Minutemen". d1baseball.com. Retrieved 2013-03-15.
↑ "2024 UMass Baseball Record Book" (PDF). UMass Athletics. umassathletics.com. Retrieved January 1, 2025.

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[1] "University of Massachusetts Amherst Athletics Official Style Guide" (PDF). Retrieved July 4, 2021.

[baseball-2] "Massachusetts Minutemen". d1baseball.com. Retrieved 2013-03-15.

[2024_baseball_record_book-3] "2024 UMass Baseball Record Book" (PDF). UMass Athletics. umassathletics.com. Retrieved January 1, 2025.

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v t e UMass Minutemen baseball
Venues	Alumni Field (1882–1965) Varsity Field (1966–1970) Earl Lorden Field (1971–present)
People	Head coaches
Seasons	1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
National Championships in bold; College World Series appearances in italics

v t e Atlantic 10 Conference baseball
Current teams	Davidson Wildcats Dayton Flyers Fordham Rams George Mason Patriots George Washington Revolutionaries UMass Minutemen (leaving in 2025) Rhode Island Rams Richmond Spiders St. Bonaventure Bonnies Saint Joseph's Hawks Saint Louis Billikens VCU Rams
Future teams	La Salle Explorers (returning in 2025–26)
Championships & Awards	Tournament Major awards (Coach of the Year, Pitcher of the Year, Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year)