Michigan State Spartans baseball

Michigan State Spartans
2024 Michigan State Spartans baseball team
Founded1884 (1884)
UniversityMichigan State University
Head coachJake Boss (16th season)
ConferenceBig Ten
LocationEast Lansing, Michigan
Home stadiumDrayton McLane Baseball Stadium at John H. Kobs Field
(Capacity: 4,000)
NicknameSpartans
ColorsGreen and white[1]
   
College World Series appearances
1954
NCAA Tournament appearances
1954, 1971, 1978, 1979, 2012
Regular season conference champions
Big Ten: 1954, 1971, 1979, 2011
MIAA: 1888, 1889, 1893, 1894, 1902

The Michigan State Spartans baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball team of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. The team competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I and are members of the Big Ten Conference.

Beginning play in 1884, the Spartans have made the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship 5 times, advancing to the College World Series once, in 1954, with a third-place finish. The team has won 4 Big Ten conference championships and 5 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association titles.[2] The team played in the MIAA until 1907 and played as an independent until the university joined the Big Ten in 1949 and the Spartan baseball team began Big Ten play in 1951.[3]

  1. ^ "Brand Reference Guide" (PDF). April 1, 2023. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
  2. ^ "2022 Baseball Record Book (PDF)" (PDF). Michigan State University Athletics.
  3. ^ "2022 Baseball Records Book (PDF) - Big Ten Conference" (PDF). Big Ten Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 27, 2022.