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Nebraska's final game at the stadium was a 9–6 win over Rice to send the program to its first College World Series. By the time of its closing, Buck Beltzer Stadium was considered out-of-date and lacked many features common among similar venues.
The College World Series (CWS), officially the NCAA Men's College World Series (MCWS), is a baseball tournament held each June in Omaha, Nebraska.The MCWS is the culmination of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Baseball Championship tournament—featuring 64 teams in the first round—which determines the NCAA Division I college baseball champion.
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
Nebraska hired Dave Van Horn in 1998 and he quickly turned the Huskers into a national power, reaching the College World Series in 2001 and 2002. Mike Anderson took over for Van Horn and in 2005 led NU to a school-record fifty-seven wins and another College World Series berth.
Major League Baseball is the oldest of North America's major professional sports organizations, with roots dating back to the 1870s. The final series to determine its champion has been called the "World Series" (originally "World's Championship Series" and then "World's Series") as far back as the National League's contests with the American Association starting at the beginning of the 1880s.
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