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American college baseball team From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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History
19th century
The University of Pennsylvania's first baseball team was fielded in 1875.
20th century
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]
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
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
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]
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The Quakers have made the NCAA Division I baseball tournament six times.
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- Thomas H. Cahill c. 1890
- The Penn baseball team in 1896
- Zane Grey, graduated from Penn in 1896
- The Penn vs. Georgetown baseball program, c. 1901
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