BleedGopher
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per Reusse:
“How does a team from Minnesota, from up there in the snow, put together a team that can win the College World Series?”
All these decades later, the three championships have to be more of a mystery to followers of big-time college baseball than the first one was to Scheffing. In the 50 years since the Gophers won their third title, there has been only one more champion from America’s snow belt, and that was Ohio State in 1966.
Siebert not only won the three titles in nine winter-shortened baseball seasons, but he did so with rosters that were 95 percent (or higher) home-state players. A panel of those players assembled at the Gophers’ new Siebert Field recently to answer the question:
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/266144341.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue
Go Gophers!!
“How does a team from Minnesota, from up there in the snow, put together a team that can win the College World Series?”
All these decades later, the three championships have to be more of a mystery to followers of big-time college baseball than the first one was to Scheffing. In the 50 years since the Gophers won their third title, there has been only one more champion from America’s snow belt, and that was Ohio State in 1966.
Siebert not only won the three titles in nine winter-shortened baseball seasons, but he did so with rosters that were 95 percent (or higher) home-state players. A panel of those players assembled at the Gophers’ new Siebert Field recently to answer the question:
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/266144341.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue
Go Gophers!!