It’s a gold card list, the manifest of consecutive visitors to Omaha and the College World Series.
Miami. Stanford. Texas. Arizona State. And five more who have managed to run the thorniest gauntlet in college sports.
Yet, now comes TCU into that elite group, boldly going for a fourth year in a row.
The return ticket came with fireworks Sunday. And yet another masterful postseason pitching performance by senior Brian Howard.
And when it was over, as the fireworks lit up the sky beyond center field, coach Jim Schlossnagle’s Horned Frogs didn’t seem to know whether to assemble the traditional body pile on the infield — a Frog pile?