Illinois Baseball Report

Yesterday, I entered a team in the second annual Kiwanis Sports Trivia Championship here in Champaign.   While we didn’t win, we had fun and it was for a good cause. Like last year, there was one Illinois baseball question among the 100 questions they gave us.  And once again, Lou Boudreau was the subject of [...]

Filed under: Community stuff on January 31st, 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! »

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! »

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! »

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! »