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.
First baseman Bob Christianson does the splits while putting out University of Washington baserunner Sammy White. White went on to spend 11 years in the major leagues, and was the regular catcher for the Red Sox throughout the 1950's. Christianson went on to marry Slats Gill's daughter.
Photo shows Coach Ralph O. Coleman, Victor Demarz Brown, Jr., Frank Roelandt, William Clifford Frazer, Walter Charles Kirchner, DeWaine Palmer Galloway, Elmer Henry Weimer, Don Day Cecil, Raymond John Oberst, Robert Miller Ohling, Kenneth Johnson, Donald Leland Bower, Andrew Louis Frahler, Robert Claude Churchill, Bill Oral McCluskey.
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.
