Club baseball team continues to grow

By Emily Muskin

Friday, September 21, 2007

At the close of the year, four members of the club baseball team will have to part with the program they built just three years ago. Even though the team is new to the club sports arena, all of the players on the Kansas club baseball team have plenty of experience. They all played high school ball, and several played with college programs as well.

Photo by Jessica Crabaugh

Mike Irvine, Chicago senior, hits grounders to other players on the Kansas club baseball team Thursday night at Holcom Sports Complex. Irvine is one of four who founded the team three years ago.

There are twenty men on the varsity team and fifteen on junior varsity. If all goes according to plan, the varsity team will finish the season at the national tournament in Fort Myers, Fla., at the Red Sox spring training facility.

Current president B.J. Rains, a St. Louis senior, was one of the founders of the club baseball team. He saw an absence of available baseball leagues in the Lawrence area and decided to start his own. This year, the team held a three-week tryout to select the best players from more than 50 hopefuls.

The team is a member of the National Club Baseball Association, which has 180 teams altogether. Last year the team posted a 12-2 record and narrowly missed winning the conference title. Rains said expectations for this season were high, but most importantly, he hoped that the team could be competitive and build camaraderie among the players.

Club baseball provides an opportunity for athletes that are unwilling or unable to continue their baseball careers in varsity college programs to stay close to the game.

The club baseball team supports itself through many fund-raising efforts and some donations. Coach Ritch Price and the Kansas baseball team took notice of these efforts this year and have decided to donate their old uniforms to the club team.

The players will get the opportunity to prove themselves this weekend in an eight-team tournament at the University of Illinois.

— Edited by Jeff Briscoe

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