Oregon Ducks baseball

Oregon played its first baseball game in 1877 and established the program in 1885.[3]

The UO team made one College World Series appearance, in 1954, and was eliminated from the tournament after losing to Arizona and Massachusetts. A decade later in 1964, in the re-organized Athletic Association of Western Universities, Oregon was once again North Division champions,[4][5][6] but lost at defending national champion USC in the district finals (today's super-regionals).[7]

After the 1981 season, baseball and three other varsity sports at Oregon were dropped by the university (men's gymnastics, women's golf, and women's soccer) due to a budget crisis,[3][8][9] and baseball became a club sport in March 1983.[10]

In July 2007, the university announced that it would again field a varsity baseball team, beginning with the 2009 season. One reason was the back-to-back National Championships by the Oregon State Beavers.[11][12][13] In-state rival Oregon State had secured their second consecutive College World Series title a month earlier.

In the Ducks' first game in PK Park, they defeated the defending national champions, the Fresno State Bulldogs, 1–0 on a walk-off single by senior Andrew Schmidt. A sellout crowd of 2,777 was on hand for the game.[14] On May 28, 2019, George Horton and the Ducks mutually agreed to part ways.[15] On June 11, 2019, it was announced that Mark Wasikowski would take over as the Ducks head coach. He was previously an assistant at Oregon from 2012-2016 before taking the head coaching job at Purdue.[16]

The Ducks previously played baseball at Howe Field (44.041°N 123.074°W / 44.041; -123.074),[9] south of McArthur Court, named in 1936 for Dr. Herbert Crombie Howe (1872–1940), the former chairman of the English department. Howe started teaching at UO in 1901 and was its original faculty representative to the Pacific Coast Conference in 1915, partially responsible for the league's founding.[17] When the university dropped baseball after the 1981 season, the succeeding club team continued at Howe; the field was converted to use by the Ducks' women's softball team in 1987.[18][19] Softball was formerly played at Amazon Park.[20]

Baseball became a club sport in 1983 and Oregon was the only Pac-10 school without a varsity baseball program through 2008. Following the reinstatement of baseball, announced in 2007,[11] the university built PK Park, directly northeast of Autzen Stadium, formerly paved parking spaces. It opened for the Ducks in 2009 and since 2010, the park is also home for the minor league Eugene Emeralds of the short season Northwest League,[2] whose season runs from mid-June through August.

Oregon notes their first year of baseball as 1877, with 1906 as the first recorded season.[21]

• The NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament started in 1947.
• The format of the tournament has changed through the years.

• Tyler Anderson
• Steve Baker
• Tom Dodd
• Kyle Garlick
• Joe Gordon, Hall of Famer as a second baseman
• Ryon Healy
• Cole Irvin
• Stephen Nogosek
• Don Reynolds
• Dave Roberts
• Jimmie Sherfy
• Ray Smith
• Zack Thornton

• List of NCAA Division I baseball programs

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