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A look back at the Big Red\u2019s early days on the diamond\u2014plus a photo tour of the team\u2019s state-of-the-art facility<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Corey Ryan Earle \u201907<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In April 2023, Big Red varsity baseball played its first two games on the new Booth Field<\/a>. Spring 2024 marked the team\u2019s first full season there\u2014and it was one for the record books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among other impressive stats: the 52 home runs demolished the previous team record of 38 set in 2009, and the 17 wins were the most since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Located off Game Farm Road southeast of campus, Booth Field may be new, but it carries the history of what is arguably Cornell\u2019s oldest athletic tradition.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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In fact, at the new field\u2019s dedication, the ceremonial first pitch was thrown\u2014by benefactor and former player Rich Booth \u201982\u2014exactly 101 years to the day after David \u201cDavy\u201d Hoy 1891 did the same at the team\u2019s previous home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Red player and coach Harry Taylor 1888, JD 1893, once claimed that \u201cCornell has had a baseball team since the first nine men registered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps an exaggeration\u2014but baseball does go back to the very beginning of the University, when there wasn\u2019t very much of a university at all, just a few buildings on Ezra Cornell\u2019s cow pasture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For context, Cornell opened just over a decade after the National Association of Base Ball Players<\/a> was formed, marking the sport\u2019s growing popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By May of the University\u2019s first year, the Cornell Era<\/em> noted that \u201cwith the return of warmer weather, balls innumerable are seen flying across the campus.\u201d Students petitioned President A.D. White for permission to play baseball, which he granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornell\u2019s first diamond was in the center of the cow pasture that\u2019s now the Arts Quad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the return of warmer weather, balls innumerable are seen flying across the campus.<\/p>\nThe Cornell Era<\/strong><\/em>, 1869<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But it presented some challenges: as one news story noted, \u201cThe main feature of the game occurred in the seventh inning when the visitors\u2019 captain slid into what he thought was third base.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not all games were played on campus. The team also used several downtown locations, including the county fairgrounds (near where Wegmans is today).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Big Red played its first intercollegiate game at Hobart in 1874, losing 43 to 16. But Cornellians complained of a significant home field advantage, given that Hobart\u2019s diamond was a hillside with third base 10 feet above first, and trees and other obstacles scattered throughout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since early sports were independent from the University (with no funding), the first players approached Ezra himself for a donation to buy equipment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The founder\u2019s response was not what they\u2019d hoped.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen I was a boy and wanted to play ball, my mother took an old stocking and unraveled it, and wound the yarn into the ball,\u201d he told them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd I found an old boot top and cut out the leather and covered my ball. That was a good enough ball for me; I think it ought to be good enough for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckly, White and Professor Goldwin Smith were more amenable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some faculty were not fond of having a baseball diamond outside their classroom windows, and a permanent solution was found with the opening, in 1890, of downtown\u2019s Percy Field, located where Ithaca High School is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Booth Field: The New Home of Big Red Baseball<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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(Uniquely, the field\u2014funded by the industrialist father of Percy Hagerman 1890\u2014bore the son\u2019s first name rather than that of the family.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early teams began to venture beyond campus and to host visitors as intercollegiate competition became more common\u2014but it wasn\u2019t always well organized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Era<\/em> noted in 1875: \u201cThe University nine were somewhat surprised Monday morning at receiving a telegram from the Hamilton College nine saying that they would be in Ithaca that p.m. to play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By the turn of the century, Cornell was one of the most competitive schools in the nation in several sports, and it was time to move athletics to campus with the development of the Alumni Fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But before we had a baseball field, we had the Bacon Batting Cage. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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Davy Hoy at his eponymous field\u2019s opening.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Named for benefactor George Bacon 1892, it opened in 1913 and lasted until 1985, when it was replaced by the Hoy Road parking garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoy Field officially opened in 1922 with the first pitch by Davy Hoy\u2014the University Archives still has the ball\u2014who served as team advisor for more than 30 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was barely a decade into his career as University Registrar when he was immortalized in the fight song \u201cGive My Regards to Davy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team advisor Davy Hoy was immortalized in the fight song \u201cGive My Regards to Davy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hoy died in 1930, but his legacy continued with his namesake field, which hosted a century of stellar athletes from Cornell and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1923, Columbia came to town and beat Cornell 8-3. The game\u2019s star: an opposing player named Lou Gehrig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As pitcher, Gehrig struck out 10 batters in six innings, then hit a triple and a home run\u2014only the second in the field\u2019s history\u2014over the fence and into the woods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1946, a Yale first baseman named George H.W. Bush would split a doubleheader on the field; he returned as captain in 1948, leading his team to victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hoy Field stood for a century. (Cornell University)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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(And baseball wasn\u2019t just a men\u2019s sport. Before softball came on the scene, women played too\u2014although women\u2019s sports of the era were focused on intramural competition, since most of Cornell\u2019s peer institutions wouldn\u2019t go co-ed until decades later.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toward the end of its century-long existence, Hoy was believed to be the oldest continuously named Division I baseball field in the country. But several times, it was almost<\/em> replaced by a building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest public battle came in the late 1940s, when the University considered putting the ILR School there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women play an intramural game in 1924.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A few years later, the field almost housed Teagle Hall. The pattern continued through Duffield Hall in the early 2000s (although building namesake Dave Duffield \u201962, MBA \u201964, had once played there).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baseball finally relocated to make room for the Bowers College of Computing and Information Science<\/a>, whose new home is scheduled to open in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But at least one vestige remains: Hoy Road, named after the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An expert on Big Red lore,\u00a0<\/em>Corey Ryan Earle \u201907<\/em><\/a>\u00a0teaches \u201cThe First American University,\u201d a wildly popular spring semester course on Cornell history.<\/em>
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Top: The 1898 team. All black-and-white images by Rare and Manuscript Collections; Booth Field photos by Ryan Young \/ Cornell University.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published June 18, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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