Photographs, video,
ephemera, essays and statistics documenting more than 100 years of OSU baseball players, coaches, and teams.
This footage of Coach Jack Riley (20) with a wireless microphone was shot at the April 7, 1982 game versus Portland State University at Coleman Field. This was the Northern Division league opener for both teams. The Beavers won 5-4 in ten innings. The innings are not identified on the footage, but include the following:
In 1910, few baseball men were better-known than Fielder Jones, considered one of the “brainiest” managers to come down the pike. Jones has received recent notoriety as manager of the 1906 Chicago White Sox, the “hitless wonders”, who pulled off a tremendous upset when they beat the powerful Chicago Cubs to take the 1906 World Series.
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Pat Casey may not have realized it, but when his son Brett took the field for the Beavers in 2007, he continued what has become a long-standing tradition at OSU. If you want to be a successful head coach for the Beavers, then you had better have a baseball-playing son willing to don the Orange and Black.
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Frederick Mitchell Walker, listed in the baseball encyclopedias as “Mysterious Walker” was the OAC coach for one year in 1911, following Fielder Jones. Until 2006, he was a near cypher, listed in OSU’s records merely as “Walker” with nothing else known about him.
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Pat Casey, who is in his thirteenth season at OSU, was named National Coach of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association, Baseball America magazine, Collegiate Baseball newspaper and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. He also earned his second straight Pacific-10 Coach of the Year award and second straight ABCA West Region Coach of the Year honor in 2006. Casey was also named Co-Coach of the Year when the College Baseball Foundation announced its 2005 National Honors Team.
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Through the 2006 season, OSU has played 3157 games since baseball began as a varsity sport in 1907, covering 97 seasons. In that time they have produced an 1875-1267-15 record. Just three coaches, Oregonians born and raised, have accounted for 71 percent of those seasons, 81 percent of games played, and 83 percent of wins. They have also produced seventeen of OSU’s twenty-two pennants.
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