Baseball
The Fighting Camels baseball team previously played its home games at the on-campus Taylor Field. In 2012, the Camels renamed this field Jim Perry Field, after Cy Young Award winner, and former Campbell Baseball and Basketball player. Campbell won the Big South Conference titles in 1988 and 1990. The last appearance by the Fighting Camels in the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was also in 1990 when the team played in the West Regional at Stanford, California. Former Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Perry played college ball for the Fighting Camels from 1955 to 1956. Jim's hall of fame brother, Gaylord, also went to Campbell from 1958 to 1960 but didn't play baseball. Karl Herrmann played for the Camels in the 1982-83 season then latter went on to the NY Mets farm club. The Fighting Camels are now coached by Greg Goff.
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Famous quotes containing the word baseball:
“Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.”
—Thomas Boswell, U.S. sports journalist. “The Church of Baseball,” Baseball: An Illustrated History, ed. Geoffrey C. Ward, Knopf (1994)
“Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceiling one afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)
“It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)