Illinois Baseball Report

I was going through my photos last night and found these shots of the Illinois Baseball team from the 2005 season, the last time they were Big Ten Champions. I don’t even think some of them are posted in the photo gallery (I should take care of that when I have time the 2005 photos [...]

Filed under: history on May 23rd, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Over the winter, I’m taking a historical look at some of the Illini baseball alums. Today let’s look at the top hitters all-time in the majors by former Illini.  Unfortunately, you won’t find any .300 hitters here but one comes close. Former Illini From To BA Lou Boudreau 1938 1952 .295 Wally Roettger 1927 1934 [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on November 7th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Last week, I started a series entitled “The Illini Who Made it Big” with the intention of bringing some historical perspective to University of Illinois Baseball.  I’ll be talking about some of the former Illini who had made to the majors.  And to make it interesting, I introduced a stat factor… I’m ranking the former [...]

Filed under: history on October 17th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

During this off-season, I thought I would occasionally take a look the former Illini who had played in the Major Leagues.  To take it a step further, why not post the all-time leaders among Illini alumni in particular stat categories?  It would give us a starting point for some discussion and perhaps some insight into [...]

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

There’s been a strong effort by the UI baseball program to get back to its roots, to learn its history.  It’s something I heartily embrace and I know a lot of fans feel the same.  Many have asked me if there was some sort of repository of information on Illini Baseball (“do you know when [...]

Filed under: history on March 26th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Without playing any games, Illinois predictably finds themselves right in the middle of the Big Ten non-conference standings at sixth place.  The big winner this weekend is Ohio State who won both of their games while Northwestern and Indiana went oh-fer three. Michigan may have gotten a bit of a scare today.  All-American outfielder Ryan [...]

Filed under: history on February 22nd, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

This is opening weekend for Big Ten Baseball albeit without the Illini.  Those teams lucky enough to play in warmer climates have been doing fairly well at least for the first two days.  In the 11 games played Friday and Saturday, the Big Ten is 7-4 led by two wallopings by Michigan over Jacksonville State [...]

Filed under: Big Ten, history on February 20th, 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! »

It was a good effort but not the result intended for Illinois’ first game of their spring break trip today down in Lakeland, Florida. In this morning’s game, Illinois lost to Army 9-8 despite a good effort by the Illini who rallied for five runs for in the the ninth.  That gave them an 8-6 [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 20th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »