Stories about "baseball"
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Video: An ‘exquisite joy’ as spring teams enjoy fall practices with coaches
Friday, November 20, 2020 10:05 am
"Just being out on the field in any capacity has been honestly fantastic," says a Bates first-year athlete, referring to new NESCAC guidelines.
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Bobcats find competition, friendship playing summer baseball
Wednesday, August 21, 2019 11:00 pm
For Bobcats playing in a premiere wood-bat summer league, it's time to work on their games and have some fun.
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Video: In march to NESCAC playoffs, baseball keeps things seriously fun
Friday, May 10, 2019 10:38 am
The Bobcats completed their best NESCAC East season in program history this year, finishing 9-3. Find out what makes the team so special.
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Livestream: NCAA men’s lax on Saturday, NESCAC baseball today
Friday, May 12, 2017 1:23 pm
Tourney time! Watch the Bates–Amherst NCAA men's lax game at 1 p.m. Saturday, and the Bates–Middlebury NESCAC baseball game at 3 p.m. today.
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How did Ed Muskie ’36 get baseballs signed by the Yankees, Giants, and Dodgers?
Friday, May 5, 2017 8:00 am
The signed baseballs include Hall of Fame signatures of Jackie Robinson, Yogi Berra, and Mickey Mantle.
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Robert Flynn, three-sport coach with ‘iconic Bobcat zen’ who elevated Bates skiing to national prominence, dies at age 83
Tuesday, August 2, 2016 4:26 pm
Bob Flynn's warmth and loyalty to his athletes embodied “the force, the spirit, and the iconic Bobcat zen” of Bates athletics.
![Alan Nathan, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Illinois, is a nationally recognized expert on the physics of baseball.](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2014/09/Nathan_Stauffer-Hi-300x210.jpg)
National authority on physics of baseball to speak on Sept. 9
Friday, September 5, 2014 2:20 pm
Alan Nathan, a nationally recognized expert on the physics of baseball, speaks at Bates on Sept. 9.
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William “Chick” Leahey ’52, celebrated Bates baseball coach, receives Papaioanou Award for Extraordinary Service
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 3:26 pm
Leahey was joined by fellow award recipients Esther Rosenthal Mechler '64, Christian Rogers ’04 and Katherine Papadonis Rogers ’04, Elizabeth Metz McNab ’64, and Victoria Wyeth ’01.
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An infographic look at baseball’s first trip to the NESCAC Championship
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 10:00 pm
Bates plays its first-round game today at 3 p.m. vs. Wesleyan University on the campus of Babson College in Babson Park, Mass.
Home Run!
Friday, May 1, 2009 12:14 pm
Bates College catcher Gordy Webb '11 earned New England Small College Athletic Conference Baseball Player of the Week honors in early April, batting .611 (11-for-18) with a .632 on-base percentage and a 1.111 slugging mark while not committing an error behind the plate during the Bobcats’ 3-2 week.