2012 Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team The Huskers out hit the Buckeyes, 9-8, but NU stranded 10 runners on the afternoon and committed three errors in the field. Hitting Pitching Chad Christensen Austin Darby Pat Kelly Kyle Kubat Michael Pritchard Rich Sanguinetti Josh Scheffert Richard Stock 2012 Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team The 2012 Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team was the first season of the program's new head coach Darin Erstad and featured a new coaching staff and a roster that included 12 new players. The Huskers entered their first season of Big Ten baseball after 15 seasons in the Big 12 Conference that included three regular-season titles
Origins of baseball as in baseball. When Englishmen came to America, they brought stoolball with them. William Bradford in his diary for Christmas Day, 1621, noted (with disapproval) how the men of Plymouth were "frolicking in þe street, at play openly; some pitching þe barre, some at stoole-ball and shuch-like sport". Because of the different versions of stoolball, and because it was played not only in England, but also in colonial America, stoolball is considered by many to have been the basis of not only cricket, but both baseball and rounders as well. Another early folk game was "dog and cat" (or "cat