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COUGAR HISTORY 54 2004 COUGAR BASEBALL 2004 COUGAR BASEBALL 55 COUGAR BASEBALL HISTORY Cougar baseball is almost as old as Washington State BRAYTON’S MILESTONES University. Classes met for 3-22-62: 1st win (and game), 9-4 vs. Gonzaga at Lewiston; the first time Jan. 13, 1892, 5-21-65: 100th win, 2-1 vs. Washington at Seattle; and in March of that year the 3-27-69: 200th win, 8-0 vs. W. Washington at Lewiston; students organized a baseball 4-15-72: 300th win, 5-0 vs. Washington at Seattle; team. It is only natural that 3-24-75: 400th win, 18-2 vs. Cornell at Riverside, Calif.; baseball should have been 5-1-77: 500th win, 6-2 vs. Washington at Seattle; the first organized sport at 3-16-80: 600th win, 9-7 vs. LCSC at Lewiston; WSU, since at the time the 4-9-83: 700th win, 11-6 vs. CWU at Pullman; University was founded the 4-30-83: 1,000th WSU game, 6-2 vs. Gonzaga at Pullman; game was immensely popular 5-1-85: 800th win, 10-4 vs. Whitworth at Pullman; all over the country. 3-16-88: 900th win, 6-5 vs. Clemson at Fresno, Calif.; The 1995 season marked a 4-11-90: 1,000th win, 14-6 vs. E. Washington at Pullman; special celebration in Cougar 3-7-93: 1,100th win, 9-6 vs. Gonzaga at Lewiston; 5-20-94: Last game, 11-9 vs. Portland at Pullman. baseball history. It was the 100th year WSU had fielded a baseball team. Following finished second in the College World Series in the first season, 1892, play was discontinued Omaha, Nebraska. and did not resume until 1896. After another When Bailey retired in 1961, one of his finest brief interruption from play in 1897, baseball players returned to Washington State to take became a regular on the sports menu and has over his squad. Chuck “Bobo’’ Brayton, three- “Bobo” Brayton, 1962-94 been played every year since 1898. time All-Northern player and twice captain The first game played by the first Cougar of the Cougars in the 1946-48 era, when team is recorded as a 26-0 win over the Bailey’s teams won two Northern Division Pullman Military College on March 12, 1892. titles, succeeded Bailey at Cougarville. Brayton The military school was located on what is coached at Yakima Valley College after receiving now known as “Military Hill’’ in the northwest his degree at Washington State in 1950, part of Pullman. The school was destroyed by where he became WSU’s first baseball All- fire in 1893. American for his play at shortstop in 1947. Captains, chosen by the players, ran the Brayton continued the winning tradition at early Cougar baseball teams. Between 1892 and Washington State, becoming the winningest 1900 the Cougars won 21 games and lost nine coach in WSU athletic history, surpassing the without benefit of a regular coach. legendary Bailey. H. E. Lougheed is regarded as the first When Brayton retired in 1994, he did so official baseball coach at WSU. He served not only as the winningest coach in WSU between 1901 and 1903, and his teams won 24 history with 1,162 victories, but as the fourth games while losing 18. Since then, the school winningest baseball coach in the history of has had regularly assigned coaches, some of NCAA Div. I play. them football coaches putting in time between In January, 2000, the home of Cougar seasons, and in the World War I years of baseball was re-dedicated in honor of both 1916-20, athletic director J. Fred “Doc’’ Bohler Bailey and Brayton. The complex is now known took over the task. as Bailey-Brayton Field. Baseball really came of age at WSU with Following Brayton’s retirement, the Cougars the appointment of Arthur B. “Buck’’ Bailey once again looked to a Washington community “Buck” Bailey, 1927-42, 1946-61 in 1927. Buck came to Pullman with football college, selecting Steve Farrington from Lower coach Orin E. “Babe’’ Hollingbery in the fall Columbia College as his replacement. In of 1926. A famous football player at Texas six seasons, Farrington compiled a 138-198 A&M and Bethany College and the captain of record. the West team in the first East-West Shrine Then, in 2001, WSU appointed Tim Mooney Football Game ever played, Bailey also was a to take over the reins of Cougar baseball. baseball player of note. From 1927 to 1942, Mooney joined the Cougar program after a Buck coached Hollingbery’s line during the successful 14-year run at Albertson College, football season and ran the Cougar baseball where his teams won nearly 70 percent of their program in the spring. He took three years off games. In 1998 his Coyote team won the NAIA during World War II, then returned to boss World Series, finishing 55-8. the diamond teams here from 1946 until his Washington State draws more fans to its retirement in 1961. games than any other conference team. Crowds Bailey was baseball and baseball was Bailey average between 2,000 and 3,000 on the at Washington State. Buck gave the Cougars weekends of important conference games. their most consistent winner in any sport, Bailey Field was relocated in 1980, giving WSU and he did it with such flair that Washington one of the finest collegiate baseball facilities State was almost as popular on the road as at on the West Coast, complete with seating for home. In 32 seasons, Buck’s Cougars won 11 nearly 3,500 fans and an electronic scoreboard. Northern Division titles and finished second A $250,000 lighting project was completed an equal number of times. His greatest team— during the 1984 season. the 1950 squad—posted a mark of 32-6 and Jack Friel, 1943-45 56 2004 COUGAR BASEBALL 2004 COUGAR BASEBALL 57 COUGAR BASEBALL HISTORY In 1950 there were no aluminum bats, and baseball was played the old- fashioned way with wood and leather. College baseball was not a marquee sport, but that year it permanently placed its name on the sports map by moving the College World Series to its present site in Omaha, Neb. Fifty years later in 1999 at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, the College World Series celebrated its golden anniversary. The University of Miami out- lasted Florida State University for a 6-5 victory in the title game to give the Hurricanes their third national championship. Joining in the festivities at the 50th College World Series in Omaha were players from the first title game in 1950, featuring the University of Texas and Washington State University. Former Cougar players Bob McGuire, Clayton Carr, Gene Camp, Sonny Galloway, and Leland Dolquist, along with Cougar coaching legend Bobo Brayton and former Athletic Director Rick Dickson, returned to Omaha to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the College World Series. 56 2004 COUGAR BASEBALL 2004 COUGAR BASEBALL 57 TOURNAMENT HISTORY ALL-TIME NCAA DIVISION I VICTORIES BANANA BELT TOURNAMENT WINNERS Name, School Yrs Won Lost Tied Pct W-L WSU W-L WSU Year Winner Record Record 1. Augie Garrido, Texas* 35 1430 686 8 .675 Year Winner Record Record 1974 Gonzaga 4-1 4-1 2. Cliff Gustafson, Texas 29 1,427 373 2 .792 1950 WSU 4-0 4-0 1975 WSU 5-1 5-1 3. Gene Stephenson, Wichita St.* 26 1,406 449 3 .758 1951 WSU 3-1 3-1 1976 L-C State 5-1 5-1 4. Chuck Hartman, Virginia Tech* 44 1,372 728 8 .653 1958 OSU 2-1 1-2 1977 WSU 5-1 5-1 5. Larry Hays, Texas Tech* 33 1,350 731 2 .649 1959 OSU 3-0 2-1 1978 L-C State 5-1 5-1 6. Rod Deadeux, USC 44 1,342 597 16 .691 1960 OSU 2-0 2-1 1979 WSU 6-0 6-0 7. Bob Bennett, Fresno State 34 1,300 757 8 .631 1961 WSU 2-1 2-1 1980 WSU 6-0 6-0 8. Mike Martin, Florida State* 24 1293 429 4 .750 1962 Idaho 2-0 2-1 1981 L-C State 3-2 5-1 9. Larry Cochell, Oklahoma* 37 1269 770 3 .622 1963 WSU 4-0 4-0 1982 WSU 5-1 5-1 10. Ron Fraser, Miami (Fla.) 30 1267 440 9 .741 1964 WSU 5-0 5-0 1983 L-C State 4-0 2-2 18. Bobo Brayton, WSU 33 1,162 523 8 .689 1965 WSU 5-0 5-0 1984 L-C State 3-0 2-1 * = Active coach 1966 WSU 5-0 5-0 1988 WSU 3-0 3-0 (Brayton also ranks 34th with a .689 career winning percentage) 1967 Seattle 4-1 4-1 1968 Seattle 5-0 4-1 1990 WSU 4-1 4-1 1969 WSU 4-1 4-1 1991 L-C State 5-0 2-2 1970 WSU 5-0 5-0 1992 L-C State 5-1 2-3 1971 WSU 5-0 5-0 1993 L-C State 5-0 3-2 CASEY KELLEY SHATTERS 1972 Puget Sound 3-0 3-1 1997 OSU 4-1 2-3 1973 WSU 4-2 4-2 2003 L-C State 3-1 2-2 SCHOOL HOME RUN RECORD Totals 132-36 In 1998 junior Casey Kelley WSU finished second in 1959, 1960, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1974, (Ellensburg, Wash.) etched his 1976, 1978,1983 and 1984; third in 1958 and 1981.

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