Penn Quakers baseball

Penn Quakers
2024 Penn Quakers baseball team
Founded1875 (1875)
UniversityUniversity of Pennsylvania
Head coachJohn Yurkow (11th season)
ConferenceIvy League
LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Home stadiumMeiklejohn Stadium
(Capacity: 850)
ColorsRed and blue[1]
   
NCAA Tournament appearances
1975, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1995, 2023, 2024
Conference tournament champions
Ivy: 1995, 2023, 2024
Regular season conference champions
Ivy: 2022, 2023
EIBL: 1975, 1988, 1989, 1990

The Penn Quakers baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] The team is a member of the Ivy League, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The team plays its home games at Meiklejohn Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Quakers are coached by John Yurkow.

History

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19th century

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Thomas H. Cahill, who attended but did not graduate from Penn Medical School, played for the Louisville Colonels, a Major League Baseball team in the American Association, c. 1890
The Penn baseball team in 1896
Zane Grey, a member of Penn's varsity baseball team in 1895 and 1896 graduated from Penn in 1896

The University of Pennsylvania's first baseball team was fielded in 1875.

20th century

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The Penn vs. Georgetown baseball program, c. 1901
Doug Glanville, who majored in systems engineering at Penn, was a Major League Baseball outfielder with the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, and Texas Rangers from 1996 to 2004 and later a broadcast color analyst for Marquee Sports Network and ESPN and a contributor to The Athletic.[3]

The Quakers won four championships in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League, a baseball-only conference that existed from 1930 to 1992, which consisted of the eight Ivy League schools and Army and Navy.[4] Penn baseball has won two Ivy League title and has advanced to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship six times.[5]

21st century

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Mark DeRosa, a former Major League Baseball player who primarily played third and second base from 1998 to 2013, with the Washington Nationals in 2012

In 2023, the fourth-seeded Penn team twice defeated third-seeded Cornell to win the program's second consecutive Ivy League Tournament title and earn a berth into the NCAA regional.[6]

Postseason

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The Quakers have made the NCAA Division I baseball tournament six times.

Year Region Opponent Result
1975 Northeast Seton Hall
Maine		 L 5–7
L 0–1
1988 Central California
Southern
Michigan		 L 3–13
W 10–6
L 6–7
1989 Northeast Illinois
Arizona State
Le Moyne		 W 7–1
L 4–15
L 16–18
1990 West II Arizona State
UC Santa Barbara
Washington State		 L 1–12
W 5–3
L 2–8
1995 Midwest II Auburn
Indiana State		 L 1–2
L 5–6
2023 Auburn Regional Auburn
Samford
Southern Miss		 W 6–3
W 5–4
L 2–11
2024 Charlottesville Regional Virginia
St. John's		 L 2–4
L 9–10 (12 innings)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Elements of the Penn Logo". Branding.Web-Resources.UPenn.edu. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  2. ^ "Pennsylvania Quakers". d1baseball.com. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
  3. ^ Ivy League Sports Archived November 9, 2004, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Martha Mitchell. "Baseball". Encyclopedia Brunoniana. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  5. ^ https://pennathletics.com/documents/2017/12/6/18QuickFacts.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ https://pennathletics.com/news/2024/5/20/back-to-back-ivy-champs-baseball-takes-two-from-cornell-punches-ticket-to-ncaa-regional.aspx retrieved May 22, 2024
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