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Bus Leagues Book Review: The Last Best League

Bus Leagues Book Review: The Last Best League
As summer starts going into fall and the College Baseball Summer Leagues engage in their playoffs, I find myself looking to a minor league book that may have slipped through the cracks of your reading eye. And as I am a natural segueist, we will look at the [...]

The 2010 College World Series All-Time Alumni Team

A couple years ago, I put together an All-Time College World Series Alumni team for that season’s participants. Basically, I took the players with the best major league careers from each school and made a team. It was fun and mildly interesting, so I decided to bring it back this year.
Two rules at [...]

Book Another Ticket To Omaha

Arizona State was one strike away from Omaha before Arkansas’s Brett Eibner, the guy who picked up the loss in Saturday night’s Super Regional opener, took a hanging slider down the left field line for a game-tying homerun.
Unfortunately, Eibner’s dramatics only delayed the inevitable for the Razorbacks. The top-seeded Sun Devils maintained their composure, [...]

Throw Another Team Into The Series

As noted just a couple hours ago, we have a fifth team in the 2010 College World Series. UCLA came from behind to win late on Saturday and transferred that momentum to Sunday, beating Cal State Fullerton 9-1 to advance to Omaha.
This is the third trip to the College World Series for the Bruins, [...]

Ohhhhh, We’re Halfway There

As of this moment, four teams have qualified for the 2010 College World Series, which begins next Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska.
Florida, Florida State, and TCU advanced after winning the rubber game of their Super Regional matchups earlier today. South Carolina didn’t need a third game, sweeping Coastal Carolina 4-3 and 10-9.
It will be the [...]