| Cornell Big Red baseball | |
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 2025 Cornell Big Red baseball team | |
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| Founded | 1869; 156 years ago (1869) |
| University | Cornell University |
| Head coach | Dan Pepicelli (10th season) |
| Conference | Ivy League |
| Location | Ithaca, New York |
| Home stadium | Booth Field (Capacity: 500) |
| Nickname | Big Red |
| Colors | Carnelian red and white[1] |
| NCAA tournament appearances | |
| 1977, 2012 | |
| Conference tournament champions | |
| 2012 | |
| Conference regular season champions | |
| EIBL: 1939, 1940, 1952*, 1972, 1977, 1980 Ivy: 1959**, 1979**, 1982**, 2012 * Winner of South Division, no overall conference champion named ** Named Ivy League champion as highest-finishing Ivy League school in EIBL | |
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TheCornell Big Red baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team ofCornell University inIthaca, New York, United States.[2] The team is a member of theIvy League, which is part ofNCAA Division I. Cornell's first baseball team was fielded in 1869 and participated in theEastern Intercollegiate Baseball League (EIBL) until 1992. Since 2023, the team plays its home games at Booth Field inIthaca, New York, following 101 years atHoy Field.
David "Davy" F. Hoy, an alumnus and longtime university registrar, served as the university's baseball advisor for thirty years at the start of the 20th century.[3] He traveled south with the team for spring training each year.[3] Hoy baseball field was built at his urging in 1922,[4] and named for him in 1923.[3] Hoy threw out the first pitch on the field; the ball he used is preserved in the Kroch Library collections.[4] Hoy was injured in a 1929 bus accident in Virginia while riding with the baseball team, and he died in December 1930 at age 67.[4] Cornell'sfight song,Give My Regards to Davy references "Davy" Hoy prominently.[4]
| Year | Record | Pct | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 2–2 | .500 | Northeast Regional |
| 2012 | 0–2 | .000 | Chapel Hill Regional |
TOTALS | 2–4 | .333 |
Cornell has had 14Major League Baseball Draft selections since the draft began in 1965.[5]
| Big Red in the Major League Baseball Draft | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Player | Round | Team |
| 1967 | Edward Cott | 9 | Reds |
| 1968 | Edward Cott | 5 | Senators |
| 1969 | Timothy McEnderfer | 34 | Cardinals |
| 1972 | Michael McGuire | 1 | Tigers |
| 1972 | Michael McGuire | 10 | Pirates |
| 1974 | Steve Hamrick | 15 | Cubs |
| 1977 | Kenneth Veenema | 11 | Cubs |
| 1999 | Brian Williamson | 32 | Mets |
| 2002 | Erik Rico | 22 | Blue Jays |
| 2003 | Chris Schutt | 7 | Twins |
| 2004 | Daniel Baysinger | 31 | Cardinals |
| 2006 | Everett Collis | 28 | Mariners |
| 2011 | Jadd Schmeltzer | 49 | Red Sox |
| 2014 | Brent Jones | 4 | Diamondbacks |
Percy Field ... served the Cornell community from the 1890s until 1922
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