The Cornell Big Red baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States. The team is a member of the Ivy League, which is part of NCAA Division I. Cornell's first baseball team was fielded in 1869 and participated in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League (EIBL) until 1992. Since 2023, the team plays its home games at Booth Field in Ithaca, New York, following 101 years at Hoy Field.
History Davy Hoy David "Davy" F. Hoy, an alumnus and longtime university registrar, served as the university's baseball advisor for thirty years at the start of the 20th century. He traveled south with the team for spring training each year. Hoy baseball field was built at his urging in 1922, and named for him in 1923. Hoy threw out the first pitch on the field; the ball he used is preserved in the Kroch Library collections. Hoy was injured in a 1929 bus accident in Virginia while riding with the baseball team, and he died in December 1930 at age 67. Cornell's fight song, Give My Regards to Davy references "Davy" Hoy prominently.
Cornell in the NCAA Tournament 1977 2–2 Northeast Regional 2012 0–2 Chapel Hill Regional 2–4
Major League Baseball Cornell has had 14 Major League Baseball draft selections since the draft began in 1965. Big Red in the Major League Baseball Draft Year Player Round Team 1967 9 Reds 1968 5 Senators 1969 34 Cardinals 1972 1 Tigers 1972 10 Pirates 1974 15 Cubs 1977 11 Cubs 1999 32 Mets 2002 22 Blue Jays 2003 7 Twins 2004 31 Cardinals 2006 28 Mariners 2011 49 Red Sox 2014 4 Diamondbacks
See also List of NCAA Division I baseball programs
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