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The UC Riverside Highlanders baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball team of the University of California, Riverside. [5] The team is a member of the Big West Conference, which is part of the NCAA Division I. UC Riverside's first baseball team was fielded in 1958. The team plays its home games at the 2,500-seat Riverside Sports ...
The Highlanders' home venue, the Riverside Sports Complex, hosted the Division II College World Series from 1980 to 1984. [12] The team qualified for two World Series played on its home field. In 1981, the team won the West Regional, but was eliminated after losing consecutive World Series games to Florida Southern and Cal State Northridge. [ 13 ]
John Gooding Priest (June 23, 1891 – November 4, 1979) was a Major League Baseball infielder. He played in 10 games for the New York Highlanders over two seasons (1911 and 1912), five of them at second base. During his playing days, Priest held a job of appointment clerk for the United States Department of Agriculture.
The Yuba-Sutter High Wheelers, formerly the Yolo High Wheelers, are an independent baseball team that started play in the Pioneer League in 2024. [1] In their inaugural season, they defeated the Glacier Range Riders in the 2024 Pioneer League Championship.
(The Complete Book of Baseball: A New York Times Scrapbook History, Arno Press, Bobbs-Merrill, 1980, p. 8) One of the more impressive pitching performances of all time took place at the Hilltop. On September 4, 1908, 20-year-old Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators/Nationals shut out the Highlanders 3-0 with a five-hitter. The next day ...
The 1980 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff in Major League Baseball's 1980 postseason that featured the American League West champion Kansas City Royals against the American League East champion New York Yankees.
May 21—MADISON — A pair of Floyd Central pitchers combined for a three-hit shutout as the Highlanders blanked host Madison 4-0 in a Hoosier Hills Conference baseball contest Thursday. Bishop ...
The 1977 American League Championship Series was a five-game series in Major League Baseball's 1977 postseason played between October 5 and 9, 1977, between the Eastern division champion New York Yankees and the Western division champion Kansas City Royals.