Wichita State Baseball Comes Back: Gene Stephenson and the Making of a Shocker Championship Tradition

Wichita State Baseball Comes Back: Gene Stephenson and the Making of a Shocker Championship Tradition
ISBN-10
1625849117
ISBN-13
9781625849113
Category
History
Pages
118
Language
English
Published
2014-01-28
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Author
John E. Brown

Description

There were no bats or balls on the campus of Wichita State University in the spring of 1977. Five years later, the resurrected varsity baseball program was in the final game of the College World Series, fulfilling the seemingly impossible promise made by Gene Stephenson when he began recruiting players to a place that didn't even have a practice field. Stephenson would lead the Shockers for over three decades, but those first five years with the team set him on the course that put him among the winningest coaches in college baseball history..

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