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Harvard Crimson
Founded1865
UniversityHarvard University
Head coachBill Decker (1st season)
ConferenceIvy League
Home stadiumJoseph J. O'Donnell Field
(Capacity: 1,600)
NicknameCrimson
ColorsCrimson and White
   
College World Series appearances
1968, 1971, 1973, 1974
NCAA Tournament appearances
1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005
Conference tournament champions
1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005
Regular season conference champions
EIBL: 1936, 1939, 1955, 1958, 1964, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984
Ivy: 1955, 1958, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985
Ivy Rolfe: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006

The Harvard Crimson baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball team of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The program has been a member of the NCAA Division I Ivy League since the conference officially began sponsoring baseball at the start of the 1993 season. From 1933–1992, the eight Ivy League schools competed in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League, along with (from the 1948 season onwards) Army and Navy. Since the start of the 1898 season, the Crimson have played at the site where Joseph J. O'Donnell Field currently stands. Bill Decker has been the program's head coach since prior to the start of the 2013 season. As of the end of the 2012 season, the program has appeared in four College World Series and 14 NCAA Tournaments. In conference postseason play, it has won five Ivy League Championship Series. In regular season play, it has won or shared 15 EIBL regular season titles and 12 Ivy League regular season titles as the highest EIBL finisher other than Army and Navy. It has won eight Ivy League Rolfe Division titles. As of the start of the 2013 Major League Baseball season, 12 former Crimson players have appeared in Major League Baseball.

History

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19th century

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Jim Tyng on an 1888 baseball card.

Harvard first sponsored a varsity baseball program in summer 1865, and the team won each of the six games it played that year. It played five games against semi-professional teams and one intercollegiate game, against Williams. Baseball had been played at Harvard since 1862, when "class nines" (the teams of each of Harvard's four class years) were first formed. 1865, however, was the school's first varsity intercollegiate season.[1][2]

In a game against a semi-professional team on April 12, 1877, Harvard catcher Jim Tyng became the first baseball player to use a catcher's mask. After playing seven seasons of baseball for Harvard (the NCAA, which instituted eligibility rules that limited the length of collegiate careers, had not yet been formed), Tyng appeared in a September 23, 1879, game for the Boston Red Caps. In doing so, he became the first Harvard player to appear in Major League Baseball.[3][4]

The school continued to sponsor varsity baseball through the end of the 19th century. It played both fall and spring regular season games in its early years, but stopped playing fall regular season games permanently after the 1885–1886 season. The program's highest 19th-century win total was 34, which it reached in both 1870 (34-9-1) and 1892 (34-5).[2] Through the end of the 1899 season, the program played without a head coach and was instead led by its captains.[5]

Two important changes to the program occurred near the end of the 19th century– at the start of the 1898 season, it began playing home games at Soldier's Field, and at the start of the 1900 season, it hired E. H. Nichols as its first head baseball coach.[6][5]

Pre-World War II

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The program had a winning percentage of .500 or better in 15 of the 17 seasons from 1900–1916. Its highest win total in that stretch, 23, came in 1915 under head coach Percy Haughton. Two head coaches served four-season tenures during the time period. L. P. Pieper coached from 1907–1910, and the program's two losing records in this time period came under him. Frank Sexton also coached for four seasons (1911–1914), and the team had a winning record in each.[2][5][7]

Percy Haughton in 1919.

In the early 20th century, the program held tryouts, usually in the spring,[8] to select the members of the team from among Harvard's student body.[9] To begin the season itself, the team often traveled to the Southern United States to play games in warm weather.[10] Up until the start of World War I, it played against professional and semi-professional teams, in addition to collegiate teams.[11][2]

The rivalry between Harvard and Yale University received more attention early in the 20th century. The two schools had first competed in a crew race in 1852– the United States' first intercollegiate athletic competition.[1] Harvard first played Yale's baseball program on July 25, 1868. Harvard won the game, 25-17.[2] A June 23, 1908, game (which Harvard lost 3-0) was attended by 14,000 spectators, including Secretary of War William Howard Taft, a Yale alumnus who had unofficially been named the Republican nominee for president only days earlier.[12][13] A game in 1913, played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, was attended by 15,000 spectators.[14]

The 1917 season was canceled because of World War I, but the program resumed play for the 1918 season.[2][15] Through the 1932 season, the program competed as an independent school. For the 1933 season, however, Harvard joined the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League (EIBL), which had been formed by several Ivy League schools prior to the 1930 season.[2][16][17]

Prior to the start of the 1929 season, Fred Mitchell was hired for his third stint as Harvard head baseball coach (he also led the program during the 1916 and 1926 seasons).[5][18][19] Mitchell's third stint lasted from 1929 to 1938– Harvard's final four seasons as an independent and first six in the EIBL. Under Mitchell, Harvard won its first EIBL title; with an 8-4 league record in 1936, it tied Dartmouth for the championship.[2][16] Mitchell resigned following the 1938 season and was replaced by Floyd Stahl.[20][21] In Stahl's first season, Harvard won its second EIBL title, finishing with a 9-3 league record.[16]

Because of World War II, Harvard competed as an independent in 1943 and 1946, and it did not sponsor a baseball program in 1944 or 1945.[5]

Post-World War II

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EIBL

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Harvard began competing in the EIBL again in the 1947 season. In the immediate postwar years, under head coaches Adolph Samborski (1947–1948) and Stuffy McInnis (1949–1954), the program finished no higher than 4th in the EIBL.[5] For the 1948 season, Brown joined the seven other Ivy League schools in the EIBL, and Army and Navy also joined, giving the league 10 members.[16]

Prior to the start of the 1955 season, Norman Shepard became the program's head coach. Under Shepard, Harvard won four EIBL titles (1955, 1958, 1964, 1968), going undefeated in league play in 1958 and 1964.[16][5] In 1968, Shepard's final season, the team qualified for its first NCAA Tournament. In order to allow Harvard to play in the tournament, Shepard threatened early retirement if the NCAA did not reschedule the District 1 Regional to avoid a conflict with Harvard's final exams.[22] He succeeded, and Harvard won the District 1 Regional, defeating Boston University once and Connecticut twice to advance to the College World Series. There, it lost its opening-round game, 2-0, to St. John's and an elimination game to Southern Illinois, 2-1.[23]

Loyal Park was hired as head coach prior to the start of the 1969 season.[24] After finishing tied for 5th and tied for 2nd in the EIBL, respectively, in his first two seasons, Harvard had its most successful four-year stretch from 1971–1974.[16] In this stretch, Harvard won four consecutive EIBL titles and played in three College World Series. In 1971, Harvard won the EIBL outright and swept Massachusetts in a best-of-three District 1 Regional. In the College World Series, Harvard defeated BYU, 4-1, in its opening game, but was eliminated with consecutive one-run losses to Tulsa and Texas–Pan American. In 1972, Harvard tied Cornell for the EIBL title, but won a playoff to advance to that year's NCAA tournament. There, it advanced to the District 1 Regional finals, but lost to Connecticut 11-2.[23][16] In 1973, the program won the EIBL outright and went undefeated in the District 1 Regional to advance to the College World Series.[23][16] There, it was eliminated with consecutive losses to Southern California and Georgia Southern.[25] In 1974, Harvard defeated Princeton in an EIBL tiebreaker playoff and won the District 1 Regional, but lost consecutive games to Miami and Northern Colorado at the 1974 College World Series.[23][16][26] Park coached through the end of the 1978 season, in which Harvard won the EIBL and played in the NCAA tournament.[23][16]

Alex Nahigian replaced Park and was the program's head coach from 1979–1990. Nahigian had been the head coach at Providence from 1960–1978.[27][28] Under Nahigian, Harvard appeared in three NCAA tournaments (1980, 1983, 1984). In both 1980 and 1983, it advanced to the Northeast Regional final, but lost there to St. John's in 1980 and Maine in 1983.[23] During Nahigian's 12-year tenure, Harvard's overall record was 249-152-3.[5]

Ivy League

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During the tenure of Leigh Hogan (1991–1995), the EIBL folded, and the Ivy League began sponsoring baseball. Several northeast schools had formed the Patriot League in the 1986–1987 academic year, and the two non-Ivy members of the EIBL, Army and Navy, had joined the league in other sports– Army in 1990–1991 and Navy in 1991–1992. Both baseball programs played their last seasons in the EIBL in 1992.[29] Beginning with the 1993 season, the Ivy League sponsored baseball. Its eight teams competed in two four-team divisions: Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown in the Rolfe Division, and Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, and Penn in the Gehrig Division. The winners of each division met in a best-of-three championship series to decide the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.[16]

Hogan resigned after coaching the program for the first three seasons of Ivy League play, and Suffolk head coach Joe Walsh was hired as the program's head coach prior to the start of the 1996 season. Following Hogan's resignation, Harvard had made its head baseball coach a full-time position.[30]

In Walsh's first season, 1996, Harvard won the Rolfe Division, finishing three games ahead of second-place Yale, but was swept by Princeton in the best-of-three Ivy League Championship Series. In the next three seasons, Harvard appeared in three consecutive NCAA tournaments, after last having qualified in 1984. It defeated Princeton in the conference championship series in each season. As a sixth seed in the 1997 NCAA tournament, it placed third in the six-team, double-elimination Midwest Regional. After defeating first-seeded UCLA, 7-2, and fourth-seeded Stetson, 8-6, to open the regional, it lost consecutive games to host Oklahoma State and UCLA and was eliminated. As a fifth seed in the 1998 NCAA tournament, it again finished third in its regional. After losing its opening-round South II Regional game to second-seeded Cal State Fullerton, it won elimination games against Nicholls State and Tulane before being eliminated by Fullerton. In the 1999 tournament, the first year of four-team regionals, Harvard lost consecutive games to Pepperdine and VCU.[16][23][31]

Under Walsh, Harvard won four more Rolfe Division titles in the early 2000s, thus appearing in four Ivy League Championship Series (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006). It won the 2002 series (over Princeton) and 2005 series (over Cornell) to advance to two NCAA tournaments. In both tournaments, it was eliminated with consecutive losses. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, the program struggled, winning no Rolfe Division titles and finishing last in the division in 2008 and 2011.[16][23]

During the 2012 season, the program received attention from national media outlets for a Youtube video in which members of the team dubbed Carly Rae Jepsen's song "Call Me Maybe." The video, filmed during a van ride to a road game, was viewed 2 million times in the five days after its release and led to many imitations by other sports teams.[32][33][34]

On July 31, 2012, head coach Joe Walsh died of a heart attack in his Chester, New Hampshire home. Walsh was 58 years old and had coached the program for 17 seasons, appearing in five NCAA tournaments.[35] In September 2012, Harvard hired Trinity (CT) head coach Bill Decker to replace Walsh.[36]

Conference affiliations

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Venues

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Early venues

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In its first few decades, the team played at several venues around Cambridge and Boston. These included Cambridge Common, Boston Common, and Jarvis Field, then Harvard's football venue. In the late 19th century, the program played at Holmes Field, located near the Harvard campus on the Cambridge side of the Charles River.[6]

Soldier's Field / Joseph J. O'Donnell Field

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At the start of the 1898 season, the program moved to Soldier's Field on the Allston-Brighton side of the Charles River. The venue's first game came on April 27, 1898. Harvard defeated Dartmouth, 13-7.[6]

On May 4, 1997, the stadium was rededicated for Joseph J. O'Donnell, a Harvard alumnus, donor, and former baseball and football player. The venue has a capacity of 1,600 spectators.[6]

Head coaches

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From the program's inception at the start of the 1865 season through the end of the 1899 season, the program did not have a head coach and was instead led by its captains. In the 1900 season, E. H. Nichols became the program's first head coach. Joe Walsh, who was the program's head coach for 17 seasons (1996-2012), served the longest tenure of any coach and is also the program's wins leader, with 347.[5][37]

Tenure(s) Coach Seasons W-L-T Pct
1865-1899 None 35 582-307-10 .653
1900-1901, 1905[38] E. H. Nichols 3 53-13-1 .799
1902 A. V. Galbraith 1 21-3 .875
1903 Barrett Wendell 1 19-5 .792
1904 O. G. Frantz 1 17-5 .773
1905[38] T. F. Murphy 1 19-5-1 .780
1906 P. N. Coburn 1 12-12 .500
1907-1910 L. P. Pieper 4 47-36-2 .565
1911-1914 Frank Sexton 4 64-32-2 .663
1915 Percy Haughton 1 23-7 .767
1916, 1926, 1929-1938 Fred Mitchell 12 183-124-5 .595
1918-1919 Hugh Duffy 2 8-21 .276
1920-1924 Jack Slattery 5 75-53-2 .585
1925 Eddie Mahan 1 9-14 .391
1927 Henry Chauncey 1 25-6-1 .797
1928 John Barbee 1 18-10 .643
1939-1943, 1946 Floyd Stahl 6 54-69 .439
1947-1948 Adolph Samborski 2 24-24-1 .500
1949-1954 Stuffy McInnis 6 47-64-1 .424
1955-1968 Norman Shepard 14 218-107-4 .669
1969-1978 Loyal Park 10 248-93 .727
1979-1990 Alex Nahigian 12 249-152-3 .620
1991-1995 Leigh Hogan 5 82-101-1 .448
1996-2012 Joe Walsh 17 347-388-2 .471
2013-present Bill Decker 1 0-0 .000
TOTALS
24
147
2424-1646-35[39][40]
.596

Current coaching staff

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  • Head coach – Bill Decker
  • Assistant coach – Jeff Calcaterra
  • Assistant coach – John Birtwell
  • Volunteer assistant coach – Morgan Brown[28]

Yearly records

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The following is a table of the program's yearly records. From its inception at the start of the 1865 season through the end of the 1899 season, the teams had no head coaches and were instead led by captains. The university did not sponsor a program in 1917, because of World War I, or from 1944–1945, because of World War II.[5][16][40]

Statistics overview
Season Coach Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Independent (1865–1916)
1865 6-0
1866 6-8
1867 11-2
1868 11-1
1869 18-6
1870 34-9-1
1871 11-7
1872 7-4
1873 3-9
1874 9-8
1875 5-8
1876 25-12
1877 23-12-1
1878 24-7-1
1879 11-15-2
1880 13-18
1881 13-8
1882 17-14
1883 12-16
1884 18-9
1885 27-1
1886 26-6-1
1887 15-6
1888 21-4
1889 12-16
1890 20-12
1891 20-11
1892 34-5
1893 27-5-3
1894 19-10
1895 13-15
1896 16-13
1897 16-9
1898 21-10-1
1899 18-11
1900 E. H. Nichols 16-6
1901 E. H. Nichols 18-2
1902 A. V. Galbraith 21-3
1903 Barrett Wendell 19-5
1904 O. G. Frantz 17-5
1905 T. F. Murphy, E. H. Nichols[38] 19-5-1
1906 P. N. Coburn 12-12
1907 L. P. Pieper 15-7
1908 L. P. Pieper 11-12-1
1909 L. P. Pieper 13-6
1910 L. P. Pieper 8-11-1
1911 Frank Sexton 17-6
1912 Frank Sexton 12-10-1
1913 Frank Sexton 15-9-1
1914 Frank Sexton 20-7
1915 Percy Haughton 23-7
1916 Fred Mitchell 22-3-1
No program (1917–1917)
Independent (1918–1932)
1918 Hugh Duffy 1-8
1919 Hugh Duffy 7-13
1920 Jack Slattery 12-11-2
1921 Jack Slattery 18-8
1922 Jack Slattery 19-8
1923 Jack Slattery 14-13
1924 Jack Slattery 12-13
1925 Eddie Mahan 9-14
1926 Fred Mitchell 15-7
1927 Henry Chauncey 25-6-1
1928 John Barbee 18-10
1929 Fred Mitchell 17-8-1
1930 Fred Mitchell 10-14
1931 Fred Mitchell 14-11
1932 Fred Mitchell 16-6
Independent: 1067-573-20
Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League (1933–1942)
1933 Fred Mitchell 10-11 5-6 4th
1934 Fred Mitchell 20-17-1 6-5 3rd
1935 Fred Mitchell 16-9-1 8-4 2nd
1936 Fred Mitchell 16-10 8-4 t-1st
1937 Fred Mitchell 13-14-1 8-4 t-2nd
1938 Fred Mitchell 14-14 8-4 2nd
1939 Floyd Stahl 16-10 9-3 1st
1940 Floyd Stahl 8-18 3-8 6th
1941 Floyd Stahl 7-18 4-8 t-5th
1942 Floyd Stahl 9-9 5-5 2nd
Independent (1943–1943)
1943 Floyd Stahl 9-5
No program (1944–1945)
Independent (1946–1946)
1946 Floyd Stahl 5-9
Independent: 14-14
Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League (1947–1992)
1947 Adolph Samborski 12-13 7-5 t-2nd
1948 Adolph Samborski 12-11-1 2-4 9th
1949 Stuffy McInnis 10-12 5-4 t-4th
1950 Stuffy McInnis 9-6 5-2 4th
1951 Stuffy McInnis 7-9 3-5 7th
1952 Stuffy McInnis 6-11-1 2-6 5th (North)
1953 Stuffy McInnis 8-11 4-5 t-6th
1954 Stuffy McInnis 7-15 3-5 7th
1955 Norman Shepard 18-5 8-1 1st
1956 Norman Shepard 18-6 5-4 t-4th
1957 Norman Shepard 15-7-1 6-3 t-4th
1958 Norman Shepard 14-8-1 7-0 1st
1959 Norman Shepard 16-9 4-5 t-6th
1960 Norman Shepard 9-13-1 3-5 7th
1961 Norman Shepard 10-11 2-4 7th
1962 Norman Shepard 19-4 7-2 t-2nd
1963 Norman Shepard 17-6 5-4 t-5th
1964 Norman Shepard 21-2-1 9-0 1st
1965 Norman Shepard 12-11 5-4 t-4th
1966 Norman Shepard 15-9 3-6 t-7th
1967 Norman Shepard 15-7 5-3 t-4th
1968 Norman Shepard 19-9 8-1 1st College World Series
1969 Loyal Park 13-8 4-4 t-5th
1970 Loyal Park 24-7 10-4 t-2nd
1971 Loyal Park 27-8 9-5 1st College World Series
1972 Loyal Park 30-9 10-4 t-1st District 1 Regional
1973 Loyal Park 35-5 11-2 1st College World Series
1974 Loyal Park 31-11 10-4 t-1st College World Series
1975 Loyal Park 25-10 7-3 t-3rd
1976 Loyal Park 17-18 4-10 t-8th
1977 Loyal Park 22-7 7-3 4th
1978 Loyal Park 24-10 11-3 1st Northeast Regional
1979 Alex Nahigian 22-14 9-5 4th
1980 Alex Nahigian 24-12 10-4 t-1st Northeast Regional
1981 Alex Nahigian 17-14 6-7 t-5th
1982 Alex Nahigian 17-16 9-9 t-3rd
1983 Alex Nahigian 27-8-1 15-3-1 1st Northeast Regional
1984 Alex Nahigian 28-6 14-3 1st Northeast Regional
1985 Alex Nahigian 29-9 15-3 t-1st EIBL Tiebreaker
1986 Alex Nahigian 19-11 10-8 t-3rd
1987 Alex Nahigian 19-7 12-4 3rd
1988 Alex Nahigian 16-18 9-9 t-5th
1989 Alex Nahigian 16-17-1 9-9 t-5th
1990 Alex Nahigian 15-20-1 9-9 6th
1991 Leigh Hogan 21-19 9-9 6th
1992 Leigh Hogan 20-15 8-6 3rd
Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League: 956-604-12 399-259-1
Ivy League (1993–present)
1993 Leigh Hogan 18-20 12-8 2nd (Rolfe)
1994 Leigh Hogan 13-22-1 7-13 t-3rd (Rolfe)
1995 Leigh Hogan 10-25 6-14 4th (Rolfe)
1996 Joe Walsh 23-17 14-6 1st (Rolfe) Ivy League Championship Series
1997 Joe Walsh 34-16 18-2 1st (Rolfe) Midwest Regional
1998 Joe Walsh 36-12 16-4 1st (Rolfe) South II Regional
1999 Joe Walsh 28-20 17-3 1st (Rolfe) Los Angeles Regional
2000 Joe Walsh 18-25 10-10 3rd (Rolfe)
2001 Joe Walsh 18-26 11-9 3rd (Rolfe)
2002 Joe Walsh 20-26 13-7 t-1st (Rolfe) Houston Regional
2003 Joe Walsh 20-23 11-9 1st (Rolfe) Ivy League Championship Series
2004 Joe Walsh 21-18-1 13-7 2nd (Rolfe)
2005 Joe Walsh 29-17 15-5 1st (Rolfe) Fullerton Regional
2006 Joe Walsh 21-20-1 14-6 1st (Rolfe) Ivy League Championship Series
2007 Joe Walsh 18-18 12-7 2nd (Rolfe)
2008 Joe Walsh 10-30 8-12 4th (Rolfe)
2009 Joe Walsh 13-28 10-10 t-3rd (Rolfe)
2010 Joe Walsh 17-26 10-10 t-2nd (Rolfe)
2011 Joe Walsh 9-36 5-15 4th (Rolfe)
2012 Joe Walsh 12-30 8-12 2nd (Rolfe)
Ivy League: 388-455-3 230-169
Total: 2424-1646-35[39][40]

      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

Notable former players

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Frank Herrmann, while pitching with the MLB's Cleveland Indians.
Eddie Mahan.

The following is a list of notable former Crimson players and the seasons in which they played for the program, where available.[41][3][42][43][44][45][46]

2012 MLB Draft

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Three Crimson players were selected in the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft: P Brent Suter by the Milwaukee Brewers (31st round), P Andrew Ferreira by the Minnesota Twins (32nd round), and 3B Jeff Reynolds by the New York Mets (38th round).[47] All three players elected to sign professional contracts with their respective clubs.[48][49][50]

See also

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References

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