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  On 3/6/2024 at 5:57 AM, Fletch said:

Thanks for the history lesson. After I posed that I went down Wikipedia and was like “oh shit! Didn’t realize they were that strong of a program.” Lice and learn. Thanks for the history lesson, ctj. Truly appreciate it. I’ll soak up anything college baseball. 
 

Speaking of do you, @BillyGoatHill @Beau Vine or any of the other college baseball crew over here have any good books on college baseball history?

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There are some diverse recommendations here:

 

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Posted (edited)
  On 3/6/2024 at 5:57 AM, Fletch said:

Thanks for the history lesson. After I posed that I went down Wikipedia and was like “oh shit! Didn’t realize they were that strong of a program.” Lice and learn. Thanks for the history lesson, ctj. Truly appreciate it. I’ll soak up anything college baseball. 
 

Speaking of do you, @BillyGoatHill @Beau Vine or any of the other college baseball crew over here have any good books on college baseball history?

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First, I have to parrot what CTJ had to say about Ariz St. In the 70's and 80's, they had a damn good program and knocked us out at least once or more while in Omaha. Also like he said, if they, or Arizona would spend some money, it would be easy for them to be good again.

OK, so I haven't read very many books about college baseball in particular due to that I don't think there are many books that cover the subject in general. You can find books with a broad name, ie Road to Omaha, but it really just covers the 2008 Fresno St team. 

If you want some local history which covers the man, but also his philosophy about life and how it and baseball intertwine , and if you haven't already, read Augie's book, "Life is Yours to Win".

@Beau Vine probably knows this with all his trivia question knowledge....Who replaced Shoeless Joe for the White Sox after the 1919 Black Sox scandal? 

He's the latter half name of our field. 

My dad was on his taxi (practice) squad in 1957 while at UT, so I thought I would get it for him one year for him to see the other side of the man who would gruffly say under his breath " about time you learned to pull the damn ball" after Dad had taken one of the starter's deep over the right field wall in an intersquad game at the old UT ballpark, Clark Field (hence BillyGoatHill)

The book is "Bibb Falk The Man Who Replaced Shoeless Joe" by William A Cook

It's an easy read book (188 pages) that covers his playing time here at UT, playing in the pros and then back here coaching plus a bit on his WW2 service (though too old to be drafted) he enlisted at 42 leaving the coaching duties here at the school to Blair Cherry.

Not college related but still great baseball books that were recommended to me after Dad and my Mom lived in Okinawa for 4 years in the late 80's are "Slugging it Out in Japan" by Warren Cromartie (left in his prime from the major leagues here to accept a big contract from the Tokyo Giants and play for Sadaharu Oh) and the other is "You Gotta Have WA", about Japanese baseball in general and their approach to America's pastime.

 

edit :  Forgot to add... while looking to answer your question, I found another book on Amazon that will cover one aspect of college ball but I haven't read it yet. 

Its about the JUCO ranks and called "The JUCO Life " and it most likely covers the San Jac (conference foe) connection as the description mentions Roger, Andy Pettite, and of course Wayne Graham (all San Jac). Bit funny to me that Wayne was a on the UT team in '57 when my dad was there and then he was in his first yr at San Jac as the head Coach my freshman year playing against them(Roger was a freshman there at San Jac Wayne's first year). Our conference was San Jac, Blinn, Beeville, Wharton , us in SA and one other CC, but I can't remember which one. Everybody's favorite college coach right now (David Pierce) started his college playing at Wharton the following year.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Ohio State 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 6 1
Cal Poly 0 1 3 0 0 14 1 0 X 19 21 0

 

From Saturday's Cal Poly game. Can you imagine those guys scoring 14 runs in one inning? Or in a game? Or over a weekend? 

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LOL B1G baseball is such a joke though, minus the one year Michigan had a CWS team. At least early on - they can't even practice outside. 

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  On 3/11/2024 at 8:32 PM, Js1 said:

LOL B1G baseball is such a joke though, minus the one year Michigan had a CWS team. At least early on - they can't even practice outside. 

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The Big 10 has so much money they can have indoor facilities. They just don't really care about Baseball.

And yeah that 2019 Michigan Team was frustrating because if they had beaten Vandy maybe the problem of the Big 10 just not giving a shit might be solved. It is a problem for College Baseball that the second biggest conference doesn't consider competing a priority.

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Virginia up 8-7 on Wake in the 3rd.  Is alleged 1,1 candidate Burns not Wake's Friday guy?  Doesn't show that he started tonight.

Duke up 4-1 on Clemson.

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Florida State was up 8-1 heading to the bottom of the 9th yesterday and gave up 8 to lose 9-8. Today they were up 11-2 heading to the bottom of the 6th and lost 14-12.

From winning the series to getting swept. Baseball will always humble you no matter how good you think you are.

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  On 3/24/2024 at 8:49 PM, MuellerHorn said:

Washington lost 3-1 and then 18-2 to Oregon State on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Now down 4-0 in T3. OSU is really good, but that series loss is going to be bad for Texas.

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OSU scored 10 in B1st yesterday.  It was fugly.

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  On 3/25/2024 at 11:48 AM, MontereyMX said:

caught the tail end of this live but they never showed events leading up for context.   

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LSU hit a homer and there was jawing as the guy rounded the bases. Both teams were warned, so when Cags struck out the next guy and started jawing he really should have been tossed because warnings were already issued. 

I think Johnson was also pissed at how his team was playing and was looking for a reason to fire them up.

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Oregon State lost 2-1 on Thursday and 17-4 tonight against USC who came into the weekend 9-15.. Seems like shitty bad baseball is making a stop everywhere this year.

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  On 3/27/2024 at 9:41 PM, Beau Vine said:

That play doesn't work nearly as well if there's not a moron playing third.

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or on the mound staring at the runner breaking for home and still lobbing it to third

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  On 3/30/2024 at 3:29 PM, zlavydra said:

There's no reason for UGA not to be a baseball powerhouse. They have underachieved like no other program. If Pierce isn't recruiting metro Atlanta, that's mega fail.

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Truth, especially since the Hope Scholarships mean they're not hamstrung by 11.7.

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  On 3/30/2024 at 4:48 PM, Beau Vine said:

Truth, especially since the Hope Scholarships mean they're not hamstrung by 11.7.

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All of the public schools in Georgia and Florida have an advantage on scholarship numbers due to their respective state programs. Frankly, none of the top public programs in either state should consistently underachieve. Both have great local talent pools and advantageous scholarship levers for academically gifted players. 
 

Top-tier public schools like GT, UF, and UGA have no excuse. 

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Apparently the admin at Georgia didn’t want to pay up for a sitting head coach in baseball so they had to go get an assistant that would be cheaper. Johnson has been around a lot of great head coaches: Heefner at DBU, Van Horn at Arky, Johnson at LSU. Obviously his MLB experience didn’t hurt either.

Ended up making a good hire despite limiting themselves, which doesn’t happen often.

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Watching aggy and peace-dodobird in a 9-9 deadlock banging their heads against the wall, continuing to stumble and bumble their way through pointless extra innings (Bottom 11th now), is pretty damn funny.  Lulz.

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Just realized the Athletic has been doing Monday college baseball roundups

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  On 4/2/2024 at 2:43 AM, chase25 said:

Crazy how human you look as a manager when sugar daddy Marucci isn’t able to buy you an automatic win every Friday night

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Saw a LSU fan post this the other day: Jay Johnson is 30-28 in SEC play at LSU when Paul Skenes doesn’t start on the mound.

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