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The Penn Quakers baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2] The team is a member of the Ivy League , which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association 's Division I .
Franklin Field served as Penn's home baseball field starting on April 22, 1895. Records show that the Penn varsity baseball team played at Franklin Field from 1895 [12] through 1939. [13] The diamond was tucked into the south corner, with left and center fields spacious and right field very close, possibly less than 250 feet.
John Yurkow an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Penn Quakers baseball program. He was named to that position prior to the 2014 season. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Franklin Field served as the home field for Penn's baseball, whose varsity baseball team played at Franklin Field beginning from 1895 [63] through 1939. [64] Franklin Field was the longtime home of Philadelphia's city title high school football championship game.
Penn's eight oared crew – 1901 – first “foreign” crew to reach the final of the Grand Challenge Cup [4] at Henley Royal Regatta. Crew at Penn dates back to at least 1854 with the founding of the University Barge Club. The university currently hosts both heavyweight and lightweight men's teams, which compete as part of the Eastern ...
Following the normal standard of U.S. sports media, the terms "University" and "College" are ignored in alphabetization, unless necessary to distinguish schools, such as Boston College and Boston University, or are actually used by the media in normally describing the school (formerly the case for the College of Charleston, but media now use ...
It historically involved La Salle University, the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), Saint Joseph's University, Temple University, and Villanova University; Drexel University, physically adjacent to Penn, was officially added effective in 2023–24. The rivalry continues to be known as the "Big 5", partially at Drexel's insistence.
He is one of only five Penn alumni to play in Major League Baseball since 1951, and the first African-American Ivy League graduate to play in the majors. [5] In 1990, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Wareham Gatemen of the Cape Cod Baseball League, and received the league's Outstanding Pro Prospect award. [6]