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Penn Quakers
2024 Penn Quakers baseball team
Founded1875 (1875)
UniversityUniversity of Pennsylvania
Head coachJohn Yurkow (11th season)
ConferenceIvy League
LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
Home stadiumMeiklejohn Stadium
(Capacity: 850)
ColorsRed and blue[1]
   
NCAA Tournament appearances
1975, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1995, 2023, 2024
Conference tournament champions
Ivy: 1995, 2023, 2024
Regular season conference champions
Ivy: 2022, 2023
EIBL: 1975, 1988, 1989, 1990

The Penn Quakers baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.[2] The team is a member of the Ivy League, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The team plays its home games at Meiklejohn Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Quakers are coached by John Yurkow.

Gallery of Notable Alumni[edit]

A portion of Penn baseball team photo (circa 1890) of Penn baseball player, Thomas H. Cahill (attended but did not graduate from Penn Medical School Class of 1895) who, in 1891 played for Louisville Colonels, a Major League Baseball team in the American Association

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Mark DeRosa, former professional baseball player who primarily played third base and second base in Major League Baseball from 1998 to 2013, shown in uniform he wore for the Washington Nationals in 2012.
Douglas Metunwa Glanville, an American former professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and Texas Rangers and is also a broadcast color analyst for baseball with Marquee Sports Network and ESPN, and a contributor to The Athletic, majored in systems engineering at Penn[3]
Zane Grey, a member of Penn's varsity baseball team in 1895 and 1896 and College Class of 1896

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History[edit]

University of Pennsylvania versus Georgetown Baseball Program circa 1901

The University of Pennsylvania's first baseball team was fielded in 1875.

The Quakers won four championships in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League, a baseball-only conference that existed from 1930 to 1992, which consisted of the eight Ivy League schools and Army and Navy.[4] Penn baseball has claimed an Ivy League title, advancing to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship six times[5] most recently in 2024 when: "The fourth-seeded University of Pennsylvania baseball team fought through adversity, battling to take two victories over third-seeded Cornell to claim the program's second consecutive Ivy League Tournament title and berth into an NCAA regional." [6]

Postseason[edit]

University of Pennsylvania, Base Ball Team, 1896

The Quakers have made the NCAA Division I baseball tournament six times.

Year Region Opponent Result
1975 Northeast Seton Hall
Maine		 L 5–7
L 0–1
1988 Central California
Southern
Michigan		 L 3–13
W 10–6
L 6–7
1989 Northeast Illinois
Arizona State
Le Moyne		 W 7–1
L 4–15
L 16–18
1990 West II Arizona State
UC Santa Barbara
Washington State		 L 1–12
W 5–3
L 2–8
1995 Midwest II Auburn
Indiana State		 L 1–2
L 5–6
2023 Auburn Regional Auburn
Samford
Southern Miss		 W 6–3
W 5–4
L 2-11

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Elements of the Penn Logo". Branding.Web-Resources.UPenn.edu. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  2. ^ "Pennsylvania Quakers". d1baseball.com. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
  3. ^ Ivy League Sports Archived November 9, 2004, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Martha Mitchell. "Baseball". Encyclopedia Brunoniana. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  5. ^ https://pennathletics.com/documents/2017/12/6/18QuickFacts.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ https://pennathletics.com/news/2024/5/20/back-to-back-ivy-champs-baseball-takes-two-from-cornell-punches-ticket-to-ncaa-regional.aspx retrieved May 22, 2024

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