1999 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series

The 1999 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series took place at Joseph J. O'Donnell Field in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 8 and 9, 1999. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. Harvard, the winner of the series, claimed their third consecutive, and third overall, title and the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 1999 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was Harvard's fourth appearance in the Championship Series, all of which were consecutive, and all of which matched them against Princeton.[2]

1999 Ivy League
Baseball Tournament
Teams2
FormatBest of three series
Finals site
ChampionsHarvard (3rd title)
Winning coachJoe Walsh (3rd title)
MVP,
1999 Ivy League baseball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
Lou Gehrig
Princeton  x 155 .750  2520 .556
Columbia   713 .350  1327 .325
Cornell   713 .350  1228 .300
Penn   614 .300  928 .243
Red Rolfe
Harvard  xy 164 .800  2820 .583
Brown   137 .650  2318 .561
Dartmouth   911 .450  1724 .415
Yale   614 .300  1629 .356
x Division champion
Championship Series champion
y Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1999[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Princeton also made their fourth appearance in the Championship Series. The Tigers won the event in 1996.

Results

 
           
   Princeton 7 7 4
   Harvard 8 6 5

References

  1. "2018 Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Ivy League. Retrieved June 8, 2018.
  2. 2018 Baseball Record Book (PDF). Ivy League. Retrieved June 9, 2018.
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