The first postwar Northern Division conference game between OSC and Washington State College was celebrated with President A. L. Strand, Beaver coach Ralph Coleman, and WSC coach Buck Bailey taking part in the ceremonial "first pitch" as batter, pitcher and catcher. OSC participated in intercollegiate baseball for the first time since 1943, when competition was halted due to the war.
Photo was used in the 1948 Beaver yearbook, page 271. Roy Keene was a standout college star at Oregon State College. He went on to coach at Willamette University where their baseball stadium was eventually named for him. Mayor George Peavy was head of Department of Forestry at Oregon Agricultural College; dean of forestry when reorganized as a school; president of Oregon State College and was the mayor of Corvallis, Oregon.