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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …