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Known as "Columbia Lou," Gehrig played both baseball and football. Gehrig drew attention for his record-breaking 400-foot home runs and, as a pitcher, his 17-game strikeout streak in 1923. Gehrig signed with the Yankees in his sophomore year, leaving college for a lucrative paycheck, but remained a fan of Columbia sports for the remainder of ...
Lou Gehrig played college baseball at Columbia (he joined the New York Yankees in 1923, after his sophomore season) as well as Hall of Fame inductee Eddie Collins. In 1939 the first live televised sporting event in the United States, was a Columbia versus Princeton baseball game, broadcast from Baker Field in New York City.
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Hal Robertson Field at Phillip Satow Stadium is a baseball venue in New York, New York, United States. It is home to the Columbia Lions baseball team of the NCAA Division I Ivy League. The facility is named for two Columbia baseball alumni– Hal Robertson (class of 1981) and Phillip Satow (class of 1963).
The 2013 Columbia Lions baseball team represented Columbia University in the 2013 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Lions played their home games at Robertson Field at Satow Stadium at the northern tip of Manhattan in New York, New York. The team was coached by Brett Boretti, leading his eighth season at Columbia.
Columbia did not win a game at home until October 8, 1988, over Princeton. Columbia was amid a 44-game losing streak from 1983 to 1988, the longest in NCAA records at the time. [ 5 ] In 1983 while the stadium was being built the Lions played 7 road games and 3 games in the New York City area (2 at Giants Stadium and one at Hofstra Stadium ).