Illinois Baseball Report

Happy New Year everybody!  It’s nice to go into 2012 knowing that our team is the reigning Big Ten co-champions AND the Big Ten Tournament Champions.  That’s gotta carry some weight and I’m sure help in terms of confidence.  With our new, improved schedule (i.e. tougher) for 2012, we’ll be reaching for higher goals, I’m [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on January 2nd, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »

The Big Ten Records Book has now been updated to reflect the 2011 season.  For those of us interested in Big Ten Baseball here is their Baseball Records page. The Records Book includes records of every type of category.  It begins with an overview of the 2011 season then includes standings for every year of [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on October 21st, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

In Big Ten land, today belongs to the Nebraska Cornhuskers.  July 1 is their first official day of membership in our conference. Conference commissioner James Delany welcome message appeared in today’s Omaha World-Herald easing the team and school into the new era. Delany begins by focusing on the academic side of things: “Nebraska’s strong academic [...]

Filed under: Announcements on July 1st, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Josh Parr:  All-Big Ten Second Team Yesterday, seven Illinois baseball players were honored with All-Big Ten awards.  While the Big Ten championship team was shut out of the All-Big Ten First team, Adam Davis, Pete Cappetta and Josh Parr were placed on the Second Team and Casey McMurray and Wes Braun were selected for the [...]

Filed under: Awards on May 25th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

…not sure if I do or not.  Here’s an example: Here’s a link to the official announcement and a gallery of the new Big Ten logos. Compare it  to an example of the old one (it’s actually still up on the Big Ten web pages): The older one had gradient effects and sort of a [...]

Filed under: Off Season Happenings on December 13th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Illinois has finally released the schedule for the 2011 baseball season. Some interesting highlights: – Season opens with Big Ten/Big East Challenge on February 18th (no crazy February home games scheduled this year) – On March 11-13, Illinois will participate in the new Metrodome Tournament in Minnesota.  Illinois will conclude the tournament by playing Minnesota.  [...]

Filed under: Announcements on December 6th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

… there won’t be any. They will be busy incorporating Nebraska into our fair conference but for now, twelve is big enough. From their statement: “Although the conference will continue to monitor the intercollegiate landscape, it will not be actively engaged in conference expansion for the foreseeable future and does not expect to be proactively [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on December 5th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Good news!  The Big Ten Records Book has been updated and is now available to everyone in pdf format. I love this kind of stuff.  If we want statistics from Major League Baseball’s past, we only need to go Retrosheet.org or BaseballReference.com and we have it all.  It’s all there… just a few mouse clicks [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on October 26th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Nebraska won unanimous approval to join the Big Ten from conference leaders Friday.  U of I interim president Stan Ikenberry assured us that academically, Nebraska was a “good fit” as if it were an afterthought.  The idea of Big Ten expansion is a bit scary and to some, irritating.  I ran the issue by a [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on June 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

On the eve of the Big Ten Tournament, conference awards were handed out.  Three Illinois players got some hardware to display on their mantles.  Shortstop Josh Parr (left) was named to the All-Big Ten third team.  Making the switch from second base to short, his conference.337 average and 21 runs scored were tops at his [...]

Filed under: Awards on May 25th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »