page_title: Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball
section_title: Early history
hierarchical_section_title: Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball / History / Early history
caption_attribution_description: English: The University of Nebraska baseball team of 1892.
context_page_description: The Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team competes as part of NCAA Division I, representing the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Big Ten Conference. The program began play in 1889.
  Nebraska has been to 17 NCAA baseball tournaments and advanced to four super regionals and three College World Series. The Cornhuskers have won seven regular season conference championships and four conference tournament championships. They have had eighteen 40-win seasons, including nine since 1999, as well as three 50-win seasons. The Cornhuskers won the program's first Big Ten championship in 2017.
context_section_description: Nebraska's baseball program began in 1889 as the "Old Gold Knights". College Football Hall of Fame head coach Eddie N. Robinson led the team for a single year in 1897. NU experienced little success until Tony Sharpe was hired in 1947. Sharpe led the Cornhuskers to the NCAA District Playoffs, an early iteration of the NCAA Tournament, in 1948 and 1950. The latter of these seasons was Nebraska's last regular season conference championship until 2001. Sharpe's tenure as head coach lasted 31 years, though his program did not reach the NCAA Tournament again.
caption: 1892 Nebraska Bugeaters baseball
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