Monthly Archives: June 2013
Iowa State baseball in 1957 College World Series
With each passing year, the ghosts of Iowa State baseball are slowly slipping away. As Iowa State University’s oldest varsity sport, baseball has always been imbued with the very fabric of summer. Warm languid breezes carrying the burnt embers of grilled meat. Peanut shells crunching underfoot and the rattle of Cracker Jack boxes. The glint of chain link dancing in the dying evening light. Sadly, Iowa State baseball was discontinued a dozen years ago in 2001 due to budget difficulties. During the shiny optimism of the 1950s, it would’ve seemed inconceivable that such a fate would befall the Cyclone team. The strongest echoes are from 56 years ago this week, when the Iowa State team–fresh off of their Big Seven title–was within a game of the national championship.
