Don McLeese said “It shouldn’t have ended this way!
Sports Writer Don McLeese said, “It shouldn’t have ended this way”.
HARDBALL WITH TOM BALL Professor Carlson’s interview with Tom Ball is at TOM BALL BASEBALL ⚾ INTERVIEW (squarespace.com) 1974 Tom Ball photo at last game ever played at Clark Field by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) With a name like Tom Ball, you just had to be born to stand out as a sports star….
2006-2007- 46-17 Twenty returning lettermen filled the roster. Randy Boone moves from a starting pitcher to a closer. Kyle Russel is an All-American and GOLDEN SPIKES AWARD FINALISTS in 2007 and holds the career Texas record for home runs (57) and the season (28) 2007 -2008- 39-22 NCAA limits full baseball scholarships on a team…
1983- 66-14 National champs Gus Ball at its finest The NCAA tournament field was expanding, and some six-team regionals were staged. Texas had a great pitching staff, including eight players who would pitch in the major leagues, including Roger Clemens and Calvin Schiraldi. Texas fought its way out of the losers bracket, and beat the…
MARIO “MIKE” DE LA FUENTE is the first citizen of Mexico inducted into the HOH. During his years at Texas, he only lost one collegiate game. Mike De La Fuente overcame discrimination to become the first Hispanic to receive a scholarship to play baseball at Texas.On September 7, 1927, Mike De La Fuente was turned…
THE MAGICAL 2009 TEAM – RUNNER UP IN THE CWS BUT A CHAMPION IN THE HEARTS OF FANS WITH A 50-16-1 RECORD Started the season with 11 wins. The Horns won their 4th consecutive Big 12 Championship. Texas was the top seed in the NCAA tournament losing to LSU in the finals. AUSTIN WOOD…
There have been three athletic facilities on the campus named for the university’s influential early leader James Benjamin Clark. James Clark Clark Field #1 The first Clark Field, operated from 1887 through 1927 at the southeast corner of 24th Street and Speedway configured for a baseball game. The stands were built in sections and movable so…