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The only number Ohio State players and coaches need to remember this spring is 42.
Yes, that was the number worn by Jackie Robinson. But it also represents what the 2010 Buckeyes have the ability to accomplish. OSU can end a 42-year drought by making it back to Omaha for the College World Series.
Ohio State was a perennial national power in the 1960s. In that decade, the Buckeyes made College World Series appearances in '65, '66 and '67, and won the national title '66.
The Buckeyes haven?t been back to Rosenblatt Stadium since the '67 campaign, and the Big Ten hasn?t exactly produced many potential CWS participants in recent seasons. Michigan upset Vanderbilt in the '07 Nashville Regional and was expected to take a huge step forward and possibly get to Omaha in ?08. But that year the Wolverines bowed out in the Ann Arbor Regional to Arizona.
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The only number Ohio State players and coaches need to remember this spring is 42.
Yes, that was the number worn by Jackie Robinson. But it also represents what the 2010 Buckeyes have the ability to accomplish. OSU can end a 42-year drought by making it back to Omaha for the College World Series.
Ohio State was a perennial national power in the 1960s. In that decade, the Buckeyes made College World Series appearances in '65, '66 and '67, and won the national title '66.
The Buckeyes haven?t been back to Rosenblatt Stadium since the '67 campaign, and the Big Ten hasn?t exactly produced many potential CWS participants in recent seasons. Michigan upset Vanderbilt in the '07 Nashville Regional and was expected to take a huge step forward and possibly get to Omaha in ?08. But that year the Wolverines bowed out in the Ann Arbor Regional to Arizona.
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