Yale Bulldogs baseball

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Yale Bulldogs baseball
Baseball current event.svg 2024 Yale Bulldogs baseball team
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Founded1865;159 years ago (1865)
University Yale University
Head coach Brian Hamm (2nd season)
Conference Ivy League
Location New Haven, Connecticut
Home stadium George H. W. Bush Field
(Capacity: 6,200)
Nickname Bulldogs, Eli’s
ColorsYale blue and white [1]
   
College World Series runner-up
1947, 1948
College World Series appearances
1947, 1948
NCAA Tournament appearances
1947, 1948, 1981, 1992, 1993, 2017
Regular season conference champions
EIBL: 1932, 1937, 1946, 1947, 1956,
1957, 1981, 1992
Ivy: 1993, 1994, 2017

The Yale Bulldogs baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. [2] The team is a member of the Ivy League, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. Yale's first baseball team was fielded in 1864. The team plays its home games at Bush Field in New Haven, Connecticut. The Bulldogs are coached by Brian Hamm.

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History

Yale team c. 1887-91 Early Yale baseball team.jpg
Yale team c. 1887–91

Yale played its first baseball game on September 30, 1865 against Wesleyan College; Yale won 30 to 12. [3] [4] On July 23, 1868, Yale played its first championship game as an invitational against Harvard University, in which it lost 25–17. On June 5, 1869, Harvard visited Brooklyn and defeated Yale 41–24. Harvard would continue to dominate Yale in the Ivy League baseball conference, but Yale won two games in 1874. [5]

In 1928, Yale Field was built to house the Yale baseball program. Yale's first game in their new stadium was played in 1928 against the Eastern League New Haven Professionals. The first pitch was thrown by Mayor Tower of New Haven. The result of the game was a 12–0 shutout by the road team. [6]

Major leaguers pitcher Craig Breslow (Oakland A's and Boston Red Sox) and catcher Ryan Lavarnway (Boston Red Sox/Los Angeles Dodgers), among others, played baseball for the Bulldogs. Breslow led the Ivy League with a 2.56 ERA in 2002. [7] Lavarnway led the NCAA in batting average (.467) and slugging percentage (.873) in 2007, set the Ivy League hitting-streak record (25), and through 2010 held the Ivy League record in career home runs (33). [8] In August 2012, Breslow and Lavarnway, playing for the Red Sox, became the first Yale grads to be Major League teammates since 1949, and the first All-Yale battery in the major leagues since 1883. [9] In September 2016 the two were again battery-mates, this time playing for Team Israel in the qualifiers for the 2017 World Baseball Classic. [10]

Yale in the NCAA Tournament

YearRecordPctNotes
1947 2–2.500 College World Series Runner-up, Eastern Playoff Champion
1948 4–2.667 College World Series Runner-up, Eastern Playoff Champion
1981 0–2.000 Northeast Regional
1992 1–2.333 Mideast Regional
1993 0–2.000 Central I Regional
2017 2–2.500 Corvallis Regional
TOTALS
9–12.429

Major League Baseball

Bob Davis pitched for Yale and then pitched in Major League Baseball in 1958 and 1960. Yale has had 35 Major League Baseball Draft selections since the draft began in 1965. [11]

Undrafted players

Other notable players

National teams

Notable in other fields

See also

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References

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  2. ↑ "Yale Bulldogs". d1baseball.com. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ "ISSUU – Yale & Professional Baseball by Yale Athletics". Issuu. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Passed Balls". Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 4.
  5. ↑ "Early History of Harvard-Yale baseball" . Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Yale Field" . Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Six Leaguers Taken in MLB Draft". Ivyleaguesports.com. June 5, 2002. Archived from the original on June 14, 2006. Retrieved March 18, 2010.
  8. ↑ "Ryan Lavarnway". Yalebulldogs.com. April 6, 2007. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Bulldogs in Beantown". Yale Daily News. September 5, 2012. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
  10. ↑ Baseball alumni take on the world | Sporting Life | Yale Alumni Magazine
  11. ↑ "MLB Amateur Draft Picks who came from "Yale University (New Haven, CT)"". Baseball-Reference.com . Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  12. ↑ Morgan, Nancy (June 10, 2001). "Yale grad DeSantis is a hit on, off field". St. Petersburg Times . Archived from the original on September 24, 2001. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
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