Photographs, video,
ephemera, essays and statistics documenting more than 100 years of OSU baseball players, coaches, and teams.
In 1938, the Oregon State College Alumni Association published the Orange and Black, a history of the college through its first seventy years. The chapter on baseball includes an all-time all-star team to that point.
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This footage shows portions of the eighth through tenth innings of a double-header at Coleman Field.
The original film is 16 mm color silent and is about eleven minutes long.
This was the first game of a double header played on May 10, 1975, with the Beavers winning 6-5 in ten innings. OSU also took the nightcap 11-7. These were the last regularly scheduled games of the conference season. OSU finished in a tie with Washington State for the Northern Division title, and a one-game playoff ensued in Pullman the following Wednesday, with the Cougars prevailing 6-4. OSU finished the season with a 28-10-1 record. Assuming that the film is in chronological order, all the action takes place from the eighth inning on. Pat Barry, pitching in relief, was the winning pitcher in each game of the double-header.
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:
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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This list was compiled by Kip Carlson and Paul Andresen from many sources, including yearbooks, media guides, athletic department records and correspondence, newspaper microfilm, and the Oregon Stater (alumni magazine). It is certainly not a complete list of everyone who wore the uniform, nor can it be assumed to be a complete list of lettermen, as some records are missing or incomplete. While not perfect, it should include anyone who saw a reasonable amount of playing time for OSU.
The list gives player’s name (last and first in columns A-B), year played (column C), position (column D); year in school (column E) and hometown and high school (column F).
Terry Baker is, without a doubt, Oregon State’s most famous athlete. Baker won the Heisman Trophy, emblematic of nations top collegiate football player, in 1962, and was named Sports Illustrated’s Athlete of the Year as well. He was the first-ever West Coast Heisman winner.
It almost never happened.
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Joe Kasberger was a talented multi-sport athlete born in The Dalles in 1896, the sixth of nine children.
Thanks to some monks passing through The Dalles, Kasberger enrolled at Mount Angel College in 1915. He played basketball, football, and baseball there for two years, then transferred to OAC in the fall of 1917, a twenty-one year-old freshman. He was an active student leader and quite the “big man on campus”. Joe lettered in baseball in 1920, 1921, and 1922. He also played football and basketball for the Beavers and was fraternity brother of Spec Keene and Slats Gill.
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Terry Baker wasn’t the only potential pitcher that Tommy Prothro sneaked away from the Beaver baseball team. Rich Koeper, an All-American tackle on the ’65 Rose Bowl team, had come to OSU from the College of San Mateo, where he was also a pitcher on the baseball team. He came to Corvallis on a football scholarship, with the understanding that he could also try out for the baseball team.
For a good number of years now it appeared that Ken Forsch’s sixteen-year major league career was the longest-ever by a Beaver. Now it seems that Ken is only second best, and by quite a lot.
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