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Harvard Crimson | |
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2024 Harvard Crimson baseball team | |
Founded | 1865 |
University | Harvard University |
Head coach | Bill Decker (12th season) |
Conference | Ivy League Rolfe Division |
Location | Boston, Massachusetts |
Home stadium | Joseph J. O'Donnell Field (Capacity: 1,600) |
Nickname | Crimson |
Colors | Crimson, white, and black[1] |
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, 2019 | |
Conference tournament champions | |
1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2019 | |
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, 2019 Ivy Rolfe: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2019 |
The Harvard Crimson baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball team of Harvard University, located in Boston, Massachusetts. The program has been a member of the Ivy League since the conference officially began sponsoring baseball at the start of the 1993 season. The team plays at Joseph J. O'Donnell Field, located across the Charles River from Harvard's main campus. Bill Decker has been the program's head coach since the 2013 season.
The program has appeared in four College World Series and 14 NCAA tournaments. It has won five Ivy League Championship Series, eight Rolfe Division titles, 15 EIBL regular season titles, and 12 Ivy League regular season titles. In 2019, the team won its first Ivy League title since 2005 when they defeated Columbia Archived 2019-08-01 at the Wayback Machine in the Ivy League Playoff Series.
As of the start of the 2014 Major League Baseball season, 12 former Crimson players have appeared in Major League Baseball.