Harvard University

• Location: Cambridge, MA
• Nickname: Crimson
• Conference: Ivy League 1993-present; Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League 1933-1992
• Ballpark: O'Donnell Field

College World Series Appearances: 4 1968, 1971, 1973 & 1974

Stats of MLB players who went here

Eddie Grant, usually remembered as "Harvard Eddie Grant", was a Harvard graduate who played in the major leagues and gained additional fame for giving up his life in the Argonne Forest during battle in World War I.

Harvard's first baseball team was formed in 1862 by freshmen George A. Flagg and Frank Wright. Ambassador Joe Kennedy (father of John F. Kennedy) played baseball at Harvard.

People who went here

• Roger Abrams, author
• Doc Adams, executive
• Sandy Alderson, general manager
• Tanner Anderson, pitcher
• Roger Angell, author
• Chris Archer, pitcher
• J. Ogden Armour, owner
• Larry Baer, executive
• John Barbee, college coach
• Hunter Bigge, pitcher
• John Birtwell, minor league pitcher
• Elizabeth Bloom, writer
• C.E. Brickley, Olympic catcher
• Jeff Bridich, general manager
• Heywood Broun, writer
• Earl Brown, pitcher
• Walter Clarkson, pitcher
• Leonard Coleman, executive
• Jocko Conlon, infielder
• Brendan Connolly, minor league coach
• Dee Cousineau, catcher
• Dick Cramer, author
• Ben Crockett, minor league pitcher
• Al Cypert, infielder
• Shyam Das, arbitrator
• George Davis, pitcher
• Paul DePodesta, general manager
• Charlie Devens, pitcher
• Bill DeWitt Jr., owner
• Clarence Dow, outfielder
• J.D. Droddy, minor league manager
• William Eckert, commissioner
• Zak Farkes, minor league infielder
• David Forst, general manager
• Daff Gammons, outfielder
• Walter Haas, owner
• Rick Hahn, general manager
• Donald Hall, writer
• Percy Haughton, college coach
• Shawn Haviland, minor league pitcher
• Trey Hendricks, scout
• Frank Herrmann, pitcher
• Leigh Hogan, college coach
• Eddie Grant, infielder
• Mark Irvings, arbitrator
• A.W. Jeardeau, college coach
• Tom Johnson, owner
• Jeff Jones, scout
• Dan Kantrovitz, scout
• Evan Katz, minor league player
• Zanvyl Krieger, owner
• Joseph Langkilde III, American Samoa national team infielder
• Keith Law, writer
• Tony Lupien, infielder
• Jim Mains, pitcher
• Rob Manfred, Commissioner
• Dick Manville, pitcher
• Torbert MacDonald, minor league outfielder
• William Matthews, minor league infielder
• Matt McCarthy, minor league pitcher
• Jake McGuiggan, minor league infielder
• Fred Mitchell, pitcher
• Jeff Musselman, pitcher
• Louis Coues Page, owner
• Max Perlman, minor league pitcher
• Ray Peters, pitcher
• Sean Poppen, pitcher
• George Postolos, executive
• Charles Prince, owner
• Jack Robinson, catcher
• Frank Saia, minor league infielder
• Adolph Samborski, college coach
• Matt Silverman, General Manager
• Jimmie Lee Solomon, executive
• Dick Sovde, minor league pitcher
• Tom Stack-Babich, minor league outfielder
• Tom Stankard, infielder
• David Stearns, General Manager
• Mike Stenhouse, outfielder
• Jeff Stoeckel, Division Élite Coach
• Jim Stoeckel, scout
• Alan Storke, infielder
• Brent Suter, pitcher
• Tom Sutula, college coach
• Ernest Lawrence Thayer, author
• Frederick Thayer, college coach, inventor
• Jim Tyng, pitcher
• Matt Vance, Bundesliga infielder
• Pete Varney, catcher
• Max Warren, Bundesliga pitcher
• Michael Weiner, executive director of MLBPA
• Jamie Werly, minor league pitcher
• Tom Werner, owner
• Peter Widdrington, executive
• Mike Wilson, executive
• Rick Wolff, minor league infielder
• Kim Wybo, First Division outfielder
• Noah Zavolas, minor league pitcher

Coaches

• Frederick Thayer 1876-1878
• E.H. Nichols, 1900-1901, 1905
• A.V. Galbraith, 1902
• Barrett Wendell, 1903
• O.G. Franz, 1904
• T.F. Murphy, 1905
• P.N. Coburn, 1906
• L.P. Pieper, 1907-1910
• Frank Sexton, 1911-1914
• Percy Haughton, 1915
• Fred Mitchell, 1916, 1926, 1929-1938
• Hugh Duffy, 1918-1919
• John Slattery, 1920-1924
• Edward Mahan, 1925
• Henry Chauncey, 1927
• John Barbee, 1928
• Floyd Stahl, 1939-1943, 1946
• Adolph Samborski, 1947-1948
• Stuffy McInnis, 1949-1954
• Norman Shepard, 1955-1968
• Loyal Park, 1969-1978
• Alex Nahigian, 1979-1990
• Lee Hogan, 1991-1995
• Joe Walsh, 1996-2012
• Bill Decker, 2013-present

Assistant Coaches

• Ace Adams, 1985
• Kristaps Aldins, 2010-2011
• John Clarkson, 1887-1892
• Hal Janvrin, 1931-1934
• Ted Lewis
• Tom Lo Ricco, 2006-2012
• Ernie May, 2016
• Charlie O'Malley
• Freddy Parent, 1921-1924
• Jim Stoeckel
• Pete Wilk, 1992-1995
• Mike Zandler, 2013-?

Year-by-Year Record

Year	Overall Record	Conference Record	Notes
1865	6-0
1866	5-7
1867	9-2
1868	8-1
1869	12-5
1870	29-8-1
1871	8-5
1872	5-3
1873	3-7
1874	7-8
1875	5-5
1876	23-9
1877	22-10-1
1878	21-6-1
1879	11-13-2
1880	11-18
1881	13-8
1882	12-14
1883	12-15
1884	18-8
1885	27-1
1886	25-5
1887	15-6
1888	21-4
1889	12-16
1890	20-12
1891	20-11
1892	34-5
1893	27-5-3
1894	19-10
1895	13-15
1896	16-13
1897	16-9
1898	21-10-1
1899	18-11
1900	16-6
1901	18-2
1902	21-3
1903	19-5
1904	17-5
1905	19-5-1
1906	12-12
1907	15-7
1908	11-12-1
1909	13-6
1910	8-11-1
1911	17-6
1912	12-10-1
1913	15-9-1
1914	20-7
1915	23-7
1916	22-3-1
1918	1-8
1919	7-13
1920	12-11-2
1921	18-8
1922	19-8
1923	14-13
1924	12-13
1925	9-14
1926	15-7
1927	25-6-1
1928	18-10
1929	17-8-1
1930	10-14
1931	14-11
1932	16-6
1933	10-11	5-6
1934	20-17-1	6-5-1
1935	16-9-1	8-4
1936	16-10	8-4
1937	13-14-1	8-4
1938	14-14	8-4
1939	16-10	9-3
1940	8-18	3-8
1941	7-18	4-8
1942	9-9	5-5
1943	9-5	2-0
1946	5-9
1947	12-13	7-5
1948	12-11-1	2-4
1949	10-12	5-4
1950	9-6	5-2
1951	7-9	3-5
1952	6-11-1	2-6
1953	8-11	4-5
1954	7-15	3-5
1955	18-5	8-1
1956	18-6	5-4
1957	15-7-1	6-3
1958	14-8-1	7-0
1959	16-9	4-5
1960	9-13-1	3-5
1961	10-11	2-4
1962	19-4	7-2
1963	17-6	5-4
1964	21-2-1	9-0
1965	12-11	5-4
1966	15-9	3-6
1967	15-7	5-3
1968	19-9	8-1	CWS District Tournaments / CWS
1969	13-8	4-4
1970	24-7	10-4
1971	27-8	9-5	CWS District Tournaments / CWS
1972	30-9	9-5	CWS District Tournaments
1973	35-5	11-2	CWS District Tournaments / CWS
1974	31-11	10-4	CWS District Tournaments / CWS
1975	25-10	8-6
1976	17-18	4-10
1977	22-7	7-5
1978	24-10	11-3	CWS Regionals
1979	22-14	9-5
1980	24-12	10-4	CWS Regionals
1981	17-14	6-7
1982	17-16	9-9
1983	27-8-1	15-3-1	CWS Regionals
1984	28-6	14-3	CWS Regionals
1985	29-9	15-3
1986	19-11	10-8
1987	19-7	12-4
1988	16-18	9-9
1989	16-17-1	0-6
1990	15-20-1	9-9
1991	21-19	9-9
1992	20-15	8-6
1993	18-20	12-8
1994	13-22-1	7-13
1995	10-25	6-14
1996	23-17	14-6	Ivy
1997	34-16	18-2	Ivy / CWS Regionals
1998	36-12	16-4	Ivy / CWS Regionals
1999	28-20	17-3	Ivy / CWS Regionals
2000	18-25	10-10
2001	18-26	11-9
2002	20-26	13-7	Ivy / CWS Regionals
2003	20-23	11-9	Ivy /
2004	21-18-1	13-7
2005	29-17	15-5	Ivy / CWS Regionals
2006	21-20-1	14-6	Ivy
2007	18-18	12-7
2008	10-30	8-12
2009	13-28	10-10
2010	17-26	10-10
2011	9-36	5-15
2012	12-30	8-12
2013	10-31	7-13
2014	11-28	5-15
2015	18-24	7-13
2016	17-24	9-11
2017	17-24	9-11
2018	22-20	12-9
2019	27-16	14-7	Ivy / CWS Regionals
2020	1-5	0-0
2021	Season cancelled
2022	19-22	10-11
2023	20-24	15-6	Ivy
2024	13-26	9-12

Further Reading

• Richard Hershberger: "'With a Deliberate Attempt to Deceive': Correcting a Quotation Misattributed to Charles Eliot, President of Harvard", Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Vol. 46, Nr. 1 (Spring 2017), pp. 65-69.