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Jun 15, 1997 · NOW BATTING FOR THE COWBOYS, No. 14, ROCKY WARD. Standing in the third-base coaching box at Reynolds Stadium that brisk 1987 day, Gary Ward felt the change. In uniform, the now-retired Oklahoma State coach was one of the world's great stoics. A man who spoke of baseball in war terms.
The team has had eleven head coaches since organized baseball began 1898. The current head coach is Skip Johnson who was hired in 2018. In those seasons, five coaches have won conference championships with the Sooners: Bill Owen, Lawrence Haskell, Jack Baer, Enos Semore and Larry Cochell.
The story of Oklahoma baseball is as complex, succulent, and patriotic as apple pie. The game we call baseball evolved from children hitting balls with bats and from the English games cricket and rounders, the latter game often referred to "townball." Baseball gained prominence during the Civil War.
HALL OF FAME MEMBERS. 1967: Kenneth Hull-Holdenville, John Pryor- OC Capitol Hill. 1968: Rupert Cross- Chelsea, Marvin Stokes- Byng. 1969: Ray Hogan- Mangum. 1971: Ed Skelton- Shawnee. 1972: Ken Sooter- Welch. 1973: Howard “Rosey” Hogue- Tulsa Rogers, Negial King- Sulphur. 1978: John Schwartz- Moore. 1980: Bill Jensen- Choctaw.
Bennie Owen is credited as the first head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners baseball program. Owen's first season is listed as 1906 and his final season being 1922. Owen coached the Sooners for a total of 17 years, compiling an overall record of 142–102–4.
60 record (s) Yearly history for University of Oklahoma (Big12) with statistics and rosters for available seasons. Also uniform history, draft picks and major leaguers.
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Dec 22, 2017 · The "89ers" (1962-1997) is the best known appellation of Oklahoma City's long-running Class AAA minor league baseball team. The team's name derives from the Land Rush of 1889, the same frenzied appropriation and settlement of Native American lands that inspired the University of Oklahoma's "Sooners" nickname.
