Photographs, video,
ephemera, essays and statistics documenting more than 100 years of OSU baseball players, coaches, and teams.
In 1938, the Oregon State College Alumni Association published the Orange and Black, a history of the college through its first seventy years. The chapter on baseball includes an all-time all-star team to that point.
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Maybe there is no other explanation for Oregon State’s journey to the 2006 baseball national championship than this: It was simply meant to be.
How else to sum up all the story lines that came together with the Beavers beating North Carolina in the best-of-three series for the College World Series championship?
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The 2007 Beavers will play games in Hawaii, Georgia, California, Arizona and Texas in a five-week span to begin the season. However, when the Beavers went to Omaha for the 1952 College World Series, it was the first time that Oregon State had played east of the Rockies. Other than trips to Eastern Washington and Idaho which began in 1910, this was the Beavers’ first trip away from the west coast.
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This footage of Coach Jack Riley (20) with a wireless microphone was shot at the April 7, 1982 game versus Portland State University at Coleman Field. This was the Northern Division league opener for both teams. The Beavers won 5-4 in ten innings. The innings are not identified on the footage, but include the following:
This short clip from the 1925 film The Old Grad Comes Back shows the members of the 1925 Northwest Conference champions playing pepper on the lawn near Waldo Hall.
This is a b/w silent film. The length is 14 sec.
On May 17, 1952, the University of Oregon came to Corvallis for what turned out to be one of the strangest baseball games in Beaver history. Entering the bottom of the eighth inning, the OSC nine had produced precisely one hit, and found itself on the short end of a 12-0 score, thanks in large part to seven Beaver errors.
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Joe Kasberger was a talented multi-sport athlete born in The Dalles in 1896, the sixth of nine children.
Thanks to some monks passing through The Dalles, Kasberger enrolled at Mount Angel College in 1915. He played basketball, football, and baseball there for two years, then transferred to OAC in the fall of 1917, a twenty-one year-old freshman. He was an active student leader and quite the “big man on campus”. Joe lettered in baseball in 1920, 1921, and 1922. He also played football and basketball for the Beavers and was fraternity brother of Spec Keene and Slats Gill.
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Congresswoman Darlene Hooley (OR-5) introduced a resolution this week officially congratulating her alma mater’s baseball team for winning the 2006 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division 1 College World Series.
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