Home Game, This is essentially the same picture as the one above. Varsity Baseball- From left to right, Row 1: Bill Oerding, Bill Wagner, Dan Luby, Bill Rudzik, Roy Critser, Jerry Dorocher, Leon Criner. Row 2: Gary Baker, Clayton Smith, John Whitelaw, Carla Petroni, Stan Yoshioka, Grimm Mason, Manager Ed DeYoe. Row 3: Manager Dale Robbins, Bert Girod, Bob Berreman, Ray Lunde, Rod Wells, Rene Moye, Bruce Day, Ed Reinking, Kim Bradshaw, Coach Ralph Coleman. Photo was used in the 1960 Beaver Yearbook, page 181.
Baseball team (about 1898), information from negative envelope: Allen '00, Heinkler '98, Sharp '98. In the 1938 Orange and Black, players are identified as: standing (l to r) WL Sharp, Jesse Tharp, Bill Patterson, Harold Belt, and Raymond Henkle. Seated (l to r) Henry Howells, Will Smith, Al Campbell, and Tom Allen. Published in Orange & Black 1938, p. 103.
Jay Dean was a two-time All-American first baseman. He played for the Beavers from 1952-1955 and was selected as an All-American in 1954 and 1955 by the American Baseball Coaches Association. Dean holds the OSU career batting average record (.379) and has been considered the best player in OSU baseball history.