Trail-Blazing 1979 Baseball Team to Enter Cal State Fullerton Athletics Hall of Fame

Trail-Blazing 1979 Baseball Team to Enter Cal State Fullerton Athletics Hall of Fame
Cal State Fullerton's 1979 national championship baseball team receives their trophy. Courtesy of Cal State Fullerton
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Nearly half a century later, prophetic words from legendary former Cal State Fullerton baseball Coach Augie Garrido still ring true.

It was late 1978, four seasons after the university in Southern California had moved up from NCAA Division II to Division I, and the Titans were in the midst of going through an unofficial 60-game fall schedule undefeated. They were playing mostly Division II and community college opponents but, still, baseball teams simply don’t go 60 games without losing.

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Dan Wood is a community sports reporter based in Orange County, California. He has covered sports professionally for some 43 years, spending nearly three decades in the newspaper industry and 14 years in radio. He is an avid music fan, with a strong lean toward country and classic rock.
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