Many at Texas State University believe that the move to Division 1 athletics in 1984 was the beginning of Bobcat baseball but that’s not the entire story. I had started to gather information to create a book on the history of Texas State University baseball team (and one for football) but soon found out that information about the early years is incredibly difficult to find. However, finding pictures of some of the early teams was a fairly straight forward process thanks to the university archives digitizing the Pedagog, the former Texas State University yearbook (1904-1999). So, with that in mind I changed the idea to a photography book with brief descriptions of each picture etc. but after doing research for self-publishing I decided to shelf the project all together due to price etc. etc. I did want to show some pics, plus an interview with Dr. William C. Pool, a Texas State history professor and the baseball coach when the sport was an intramural self-funded activity (1929-1983), like Texas State Hockey today. Dr. Pool an amazing job to help keep a baseball presence on campus and was the first head coach after the revival of baseball in 1984.
1904-1929
I could not find any reason baseball was dropped in 1929 but if I had to make an educated guess it was related to the stock market crash and funding.
1905 Baseball Team
1906 Baseball Team
1908 Baseball Team
1910 Baseball Team
1920 Baseball Team
1920 Coaches
1929 Baseball Team
1929-1983
Intramural baseball years couldn’t locate much information at all about this period, except for this interview.
Creator
Interviewee: Pool, William C.
Interviewer: Krchnak, Kent A.
Date
1985-November-13A
William Pool talks about his responsibilities as a history professor and baseball coach since coming to SWTSU in 1947.
https://archivesspace.library.txstate.edu/repositories/2/resources/86
Krchnak: You also served as the baseball coach here at Southwest Texas for a number of years? Is that correct?
Pool: Yes, off and on. Baseball’s one of my avocations. We had a fine team back in the student veteran days in ’48, ’49, and ’50, ’51. Then the Korean War came along and that sort of squelched it. Then we started university varsity ball in 1957, I believe, the spring of 1957, and it lasted until the year 1969 and ’70 when it was canceled out. We tried to start again as a club team in 1967, I believe it was, and finally after six long, hard years, [we] managed to get a NCAA varsity team, which we have now. Yes, I worked in that. I certainly did.
Krchnak: Was it enjoyable for you?
Pool: It was enjoyable. It was time-consuming. [It was] very enjoyable and sometimes a real financial hassle to try to keep our heads above water financially. We made it with the help of some good people downtown simply by subscription method—donations.
Krchnak: Uh-huh.
Pool: We were able to do it.
Krchnak: Did any of the students receive scholarships for playing baseball?
Pool: Not until two years ago. Since then, we have some of them on scholarship.
Krchnak: Uh-huh.
Pool: a limited number of course. The money goes into football, as you know, everyone knows.
1984-present
Baseball restarts at Texas State University in 1984
1984: Dr. Pool and his team
1984: Baseball Restarts
1904-1929
I could not find any reason baseball was dropped in 1929 but if I had to make an educated guess it was related to the stock market crash and funding.
1905 Baseball Team
1906 Baseball Team
1908 Baseball Team
1910 Baseball Team
1920 Baseball Team
1920 Coaches
1929 Baseball Team
1929-1983
Intramural baseball years couldn’t locate much information at all about this period, except for this interview.
Creator
Interviewee: Pool, William C.
Interviewer: Krchnak, Kent A.
Date
1985-November-13A
William Pool talks about his responsibilities as a history professor and baseball coach since coming to SWTSU in 1947.
https://archivesspace.library.txstate.edu/repositories/2/resources/86
Krchnak: You also served as the baseball coach here at Southwest Texas for a number of years? Is that correct?
Pool: Yes, off and on. Baseball’s one of my avocations. We had a fine team back in the student veteran days in ’48, ’49, and ’50, ’51. Then the Korean War came along and that sort of squelched it. Then we started university varsity ball in 1957, I believe, the spring of 1957, and it lasted until the year 1969 and ’70 when it was canceled out. We tried to start again as a club team in 1967, I believe it was, and finally after six long, hard years, [we] managed to get a NCAA varsity team, which we have now. Yes, I worked in that. I certainly did.
Krchnak: Was it enjoyable for you?
Pool: It was enjoyable. It was time-consuming. [It was] very enjoyable and sometimes a real financial hassle to try to keep our heads above water financially. We made it with the help of some good people downtown simply by subscription method—donations.
Krchnak: Uh-huh.
Pool: We were able to do it.
Krchnak: Did any of the students receive scholarships for playing baseball?
Pool: Not until two years ago. Since then, we have some of them on scholarship.
Krchnak: Uh-huh.
Pool: a limited number of course. The money goes into football, as you know, everyone knows.
1984-present
Baseball restarts at Texas State University in 1984
1984: Dr. Pool and his team
1984: Baseball Restarts
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