View in Browser Top of the Que Volume V Newsletter #22 The TLSN website and newsletter are free, educational, historical, and insightful, sharing Longhorn sports history through the eyes of those who created it. A statistical Bio of each of these super Longhorn baseball players is now part of the TLSN history of Longhorn Sports…
View in Browser Top of the Que Volume V Newsletter #24 1990 Women’s National Champions – Photo is Coach Mark Schubert The Horns win their 8th women’s national championship by the closest margin in NCAA history beating Stanford by 9.5 points. (Texas 632 and Stanford 622.5). Leigh Ann Fetter is the first woman in swimming…
View in Browser We need to huddle Coach Gus Article by Kirk Bohls – photos added and not part of Kirk’s article. TLSN has set up a link for access to updates on Coach Gustafson health status https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/coach-gus-health-status Please forward any update information to Williamdale@msn.com about Gus’s health status and the information will be added…
Augie Garrido said that “life doesn’t give us what we pray for. It doesn’t give us what we wish for. It doesn’t give us anything other than opportunity, nothing more, nothing less, and that’s enough. In fact, it is a great gift.” Charlie is part of the greatest generation in the history of our country,…
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…
Celebrating Longhorn baseball player Ray Dulak’s life- killed in Vietnam at the age of 26 Rey Moreno, a past manager of Track and Field for the Longhorns, sent TLSN a story about Whataburger sponsoring young athletes dreaming of future greatness in the late 1950s. In those years, the Whataburger promotion stated: “It’s Not Whether…
Bibb Falk 1920 Bibb Falk 1929 Michael Higgins 1937 Tex Hughson Dave Philley 1945 Murray Wall 1947 Randy Jackson 1956 Howie Reed 1947 Jim Brewer 1958 Max Alvis Bob Kearney 1962 Chuck Hartenstein 1965 Joe Hague 1968 Larry Hardee 1970 Burt Hooten 1972 David Chalk Andre Robertson 1978 Jim Acker 1981 Mike Capel 1983 Jeff…
The Texas Longhorns baseball team has a rich history, with a tradition of excellence that spans over a century. Here are some highlights: *Six National Championships*: Texas has won six College World Series (CWS) titles, the most recent one coming in 2005. The other championships were in 1949, 1950, 1975, 1983, and 2002….
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…
“There are very few people that have been role models in my baseball career. My dad is number one and Mike Brumley is number two.” Austin Riley’s former hitting instructor Mike Brumley, who visited with Riley as recently as the team’s trip to Baltimore, was killed in a car accident on Saturday. 1982-1983 Mike Brumley…