Subject: Horns Are “America’s Team” UT: America’s College Baseball Team By Larry Carlson https://texaslsn.org There’s no other program like that Longhorn baseball program. Most trips to the College World Series. Check. It’s now at 39, as the Horns head to Omaha for big steaks and bigger stakes. Biggest representation in the College Baseball Hall of…
According to CoPilot, the greatest Longhorn baseball teams were from 1949-1950, 1975, 1983, 2002, and 2005. Each had its own unique and compelling story, shaped by the distinct personalities and coaching styles. While TLSN plans to spotlight each coach in detail in a future article, it’s impossible to discuss a team without considering the coaching…
December 21, 1961 – December 25, 2025 Obituary of James T Harris IN THE CARE OF Cook-Walden Capital Parks Funeral Home & Cemetery In Loving Memory of James T. Harris December 21, 1961 – December 25, 2025 There are souls who arrive in this world already carrying light, and when they leave, that light does…
Jim Deitrick played one year of D3 basketball ( freshman year..).., played baseball sophomore year…. then hit the books. His high school was small, so they just fielded baseball in the fall and basketball in the winter. Then more baseball in summer. Such was life in the Allegheny National Forest… plus fishing and hunting 😂👏👏🙏🙏…
Still Throwing Strikes by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) In his final UT season, Jungmann won the Dick Howser Trophy, the hardball equivalent of the Heisman, awarded to the national player of the year. https://texaslsn.org/larry-carlsons-interviews/ A capacity crowd of 350 had just been riveted for a presentation by Eddie Penney, a former Navy SEAL and…
https://texaslsn.org/larry-carlsons-interviews/ TLSN: You were seen as a potential two-sport college athlete, having also starred at quarterback for Lamar High. You told me that UT was actually the only Southwest Conference school to not offer you a scholarship in football. So how did you end up at Texas. TOM: Both my parents graduated from Texas. But…
After graduating from W.B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, Bart attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a multi-sport athlete, playing baseball and football. His athletic talent and work ethic caught the attention of Major League scouts, and he signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers, beginning a professional baseball career that…
Burt Hooton arrived at the University of Texas at Austin like a kid carrying far more talent than ego. People noticed that right away. There was something almost quiet about him — the kind of quiet that makes coaches lean forward because they know something special is brewing beneath the surface. And over the next…
Mike Smith says ‘I played baseball from 1965-66 under Coach Bibb Falk. Never got in a game. Was close friends with Bill Bradley, a year younger than I, as I had played against Bill in all sports in high school and gave him rides home to Palestine in my car when he was a freshman….
Danny Davis, University of Texas Beat Writer Every Thursday in the Hookem newsletter, we will catch up with a former Texas standout. This week’s “Where Are They Now?” interview is with former UT slugger Kyle Russell. An outfielder at Texas from 2006-08, Russell’s 57 career home runs are still a school record. A two-time conference…