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Fifty Years From Omaha: 1975 EMU Baseball's Unforgettable Journey

1975 EMU Reunion Information | 1975 Season Recap (PDF)

YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) -- In the spring of 1975, the Eastern Michigan University baseball team set out with quiet confidence and an audacious dream: to go where only a handful of Mid-American Conference teams had ever gone before — the College World Series in Omaha. Now, 50 years later, that dream, realized in one of the most memorable seasons in program history, still resonates across campus and in the hearts of all who wore the Green and White.

Back then, few could have predicted what would unfold.