The college world series
(2005)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Arcadia Publishing : Made available through hoopla, 2005
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781439615263 (electronic bk.) MWT11451626, 1439615268 (electronic bk.) 11451626
LANGUAGE
English
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Since 1950, Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium (formerly Municipal Stadium) has hosted the nation's top college baseball programs in the College World Series. Baseball fans from every corner of the country have taken the annual "Road to Omaha" and packed the seats to see championship baseball at its best. In 1954 thousands saw Jim Ehrler of Texas toss the tourney's first no-hitter en route to the Longhorns winning back-to-back CWS championships. Fans at the 1970 tournament saw Southern Cal defeat Florida State in the midst of their unmatched five-year championship run. In 1996 Rosenblatt's faithful took in the dramatic bottom-of-the-ninth, two-out, two-run homer by Louisiana State's Warren Morris, giving his team a 9-8 upset victory over powerhouse Miami

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