Western Michigan Broncos baseball
| Western Michigan Broncos | |
|---|---|
 2016 | |
| Regular season conference champions | |
| 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1989 |
The Western Michigan Broncos baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of
Division I as a member of the Mid-American Conference West division. The team plays its home games at Hyames Field in Kalamazoo. The Broncos are coached by Billy Gernon
, who began his tenure in 2011.
Western Michigan's first baseball team was fielded in 1911. Through the 2016 season, the Broncos have won 14 MAC titles, the most recent being in 1989, and have made 11 appearances in the
1955 team finished as national runner-up, falling to Wake Forest 7–6 in the championship game. The Broncos had a 6–3 lead in the fifth inning of that game before the Demon Deacons tied it in the sixth inning and took the lead in the eighth. The runner-up finish remains tied for the highest national finish for a MAC team, along with Eastern Michigan in 1976.[3]
Broncos in Major League Baseball
Since the
Major League Baseball Draft began in 1965, Western Michigan has had 97 players selected.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Western Michigan Athletics Brand Guide (PDF). July 1, 2021. Retrieved February 1, 2022.
- ^ "Western Michigan Broncos". d1baseball.com. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
- ^ 2010 Bronco Baseball Information Guide (PDF). Western Michigan University. 2010. p. 11.
- ^ "MLB Amateur Draft Picks who came from "Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)"". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved November 14, 2021.
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