Illinois Baseball Report

A quick note with a slight bittersweet tint…  Big Ten Hardball, the blog that incessantly covered Big Ten Baseball news, issues, and analysis, is closing its virtual doors.  Brian DeCaussin who maintained BTH, is calling it quits after five incredible years. Those of you who are parents of players most likely know of Brian and [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on January 22nd, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

For my money, Brian DeCaussin knows more about Big Ten baseball than any of us “regular guys” and more importantly, doesn’t back down speaking out about some of the issues facing the game. DeCaussin runs Big Ten Hardball, the “go-to” website for anyone who is interested in Big Ten baseball.  BTH acts as sort of [...]

Filed under: Feature on May 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Some quick news links from around the Big Ten baseball world -Brian from Big Ten Hardball wraps up the BIG EAST/Big Ten Challenge and chose his All-Weekend Team.  Brandon Wikoff and Dom Altobelli made first team.  Aaron Johnson made honorable mention. -Yes, the Big Ten did reign supreme in the Challenge.  They won 15 of [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on February 26th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Zealot friend Brian D from Big Ten Hardball does his annual review of Big Ten baseball team and predicts Illinois to at least make the tournament in 2009.  Brian’s bottom line?? Illinois will go as far as their pitching lets them. This team, like many of the recent Illini squads, should swing the bats well [...]

Filed under: Analysis, Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on February 15th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

The Big Ten Network began broadcasting the games by the third round.  This camera operator didn’t care for me taking her picture even though she was poking her camera into Illinois’ dugout a good part of the game. This is a mid-game interview of Coach Hartleb of Illinois.  This goes for MLB too but my [...]

Filed under: 2008 Big Ten Baseball Tournament on May 24th, 2008 | 8 Comments »

Next Game: Games #50-53 Thur May 15 6:05pm Fri May 16 3:00 (DH) Sat May 17 4:00pm (DH) Record: 29-20 Big Ten 15-12 vs Purdue at Illinois Field Champaign, IL Ok, Illini Fans, this is it.  Our magic number is down to two.  The Purdue Boilermakers are coming to town and the Illini need all [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on May 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Zealot friend Brian DeCaussin from the excellent site Big Ten Hardball takes a turn at reviewing the University of Illinois squad. He does a quite thorough job.  His take on the Illini? The good thing for Illinois is that outside of Michigan, the remainder of the conference appears to be very close. The hunch here [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on February 11th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Some years, the Big Ten tournament champion is determined by Saturday night. In this strange year of one tough team in the loser’s bracket plus dealing with Mother Nature rearing her ugly head, three teams were still in the mix on Sunday morning. Unfortunately, I was on my way home on the train. Thanks to [...]

Filed under: 2007 Big Ten Tournament on May 28th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

Thanks to Brian DeCaussin from Big Ten Hardball for taking this photo of me in front of the field at Ray Fisher stadium at the University of Michigan. The stadium is great and the staff here have been very friendly and helpful. Special thanks goes to the lady in the Big Ten Conference T-shirt booth [...]

Filed under: 2007 Big Ten Tournament on May 25th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

Ray Fisher stadium, home of the University of Michigan baseball team, seems like a pretty decent facility. I (and at least one other person who I gave directions to) had a little problem finding the place partially because of all the construction going on and because I got some bad advice from a bus driver. [...]

Filed under: 2007 Big Ten Tournament on May 23rd, 2007 | 2 Comments »