Last weekend, Illinois baseball won their first series in Ann Arbor in fifteen years! They didn’t waste time scoring ten runs on Friday then scoring another ten on Saturday. On Sunday, the Illini scored two in the top in the ninth to force an extra inning game but couldn’t…
The New York Times ran an obituary of former Illini pitcher Marv Rotblatt who passed away on July 16th at the age of 85. An Evanston native, Rotblatt played for the Illini in the late forties winning the championship in 1947 and 1948. Rotblatt did make it to the majors…
On January 2, former Illini head coach Lee Eilbracht passed away at the age of 88. With 515 wins in his 27 years as skipper, Eilbracht is the winningest coach in Illini history. “We have lost a great part of our Illini family,” head coach Dan Hartleb said. “Lee was…