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The UNLV Rebels baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada, United States. [2] The team is a member of the Mountain West Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. UNLV's first baseball team was fielded on February 25, 1967.
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The $6.5 million gift was the largest single gift ever received by the university, was donated by the late Hazel Wilson on behalf of her late husband, Earl. Earl Wilson was a Las Vegas businessman who was a major stockholder in the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas and had played semi-professional baseball in Oregon.
Following the normal standard of U.S. sports media, the terms "University" and "College" are ignored in alphabetization, unless necessary to distinguish schools (such as Boston College and Boston University) or are actually used by the media in normally describing the school, such as the College of Charleston.
The team plays its home games at William Peccole Park in Reno, Nevada. The Wolf Pack are coached by Jake McKinley. In 2015, future major league baseball outfielder Cal Stevenson, playing for the Wolf Pack, was named the Mountain West Co-Freshman of the Year, and a Freshman All-American by Louisville Slugger and Baseball America. [3] [4] [5]
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It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the University of Nevada, Reno Wolf Pack baseball team. It played host to the Reno Silver Sox professional baseball team of the independent Golden Baseball League from 2006 to 2008. [1] The stadium opened in 1988 after University of Nevada alum William Peccole donated $300,000 to build it.
Start of Major League Baseball games depends on days of the week, game number in series, holidays, and other factors. As of 2021, most games start at 6:30 p.m., 7 p.m., or 7:30 p.m. in the local time zone, so there are more night games than day games even though baseball is traditionally played during the day.