Illinois Baseball Report

Today,  The Big Ten Network came out with a press release announcing their baseball and softball coverage for 2010. BTN’s baseball and softball coverage will be doubled from last year, they say.  They will be producing at least 102 baseball and softball games for either the Big Ten Network telecast or the Big Ten Network [...]

Filed under: Media on February 16th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

It’s Monday, February 15, five days before the scheduled opening day at Illinois Field.  Right now in Urbana, it’s 23 degrees and there are light flurries falling on the already packed snow.  I’m not holding my breath for a game on Saturday but I’d love to see Mother Nature prove me wrong.   Meanwhile to get [...]

Filed under: Awards on February 15th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois Baseball Report now has a fan page on Facebook.  If you like to use Facebook, consider becoming a fan. The page will link to all of my web updates and articles plus allow for another venue for discussion (I still encourage commenting here, though!) Here is the link to IBR’s Facebook fan page. Share [...]

Filed under: Blog Administration on February 14th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

My first memory of Pete Cappetta was during a particularly one-sided loss against Penn State in 2008, his freshman year. Cappetta was our backup shortstop back then and wasn’t getting a lot of playing time yet. While Illinois lost that game 16-5, Cappetta’s three-run homerun in the seventh inning (seen right as he high-fives the [...]

Filed under: Feature on February 13th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Yippie!  The Illinois Baseball Media Guide is out.  I always enjoy perusing the guide each year.  Each year’s guide which is issued by the Illinois Athletic Public Relations Office, is jam-packed full of info.  This year’s guide is 148 pages.  Not only does it give me a good overview of the team but more importantly, [...]

Filed under: UI Baseball Program and Management on February 13th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

A couple days ago, I posted some photos from 2005 that I had not seen for a long while.  As promised, here are some from 2006 I also ran across. Again, these photos are not the best quality but definitely valuable from an archive perspective.  Enjoy.   Shawn Roof at bat against the Hawkeyes (4/22/06) [...]

Filed under: history on February 13th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

I ran across some old photographs on my system that not been previously posted.  By old I mean 2005, before I started blogging about the team.  To put this into historical context, this was the year that Illinois won the Big Ten Championship.  It was also Coach Itch Jones’ last year. These photos actually have [...]

Filed under: history on February 10th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Though it’s still freezing here in Central Illinois, we have to remind ourselves that opening day IS less than two weeks.  Let’s find out about the University of Illinois baseball by the numbers. There are 34 players listed according to the roster.  I’ve sorted, filtered, and broken it down to get a sense of exactly [...]

Filed under: Feature on February 9th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

A snowy day against MSU in March ‘09 Fans and friends who had heard about Illinois baseball’s early home date of February 20 have been asking me about it.  Typical questions are “Are they holding in inside?’”, “Is it a typo on the schedule?”, and “Are they crazy?”. Well, as to that last bit, it [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on February 9th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Last weekend along with my friend Shawn, I took part in the Kiwanis Sports Trivia Championship.  I could go into details but long story short, we could have done better.  But here’s the kicker… there was one Illinois Baseball trivia question asked all day… …and I missed it. Here’s the question:  “Who’s is the one [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on February 6th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »