1998 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series The Tigers won the event in 1996. 1998 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series The 1998 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series took place at Yale Field in New Haven, Connecticut on May 12, 1998. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. , the winner of the series, claimed their second consecutive, and second overall, title and the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 1998 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was Harvard's third appearance in the Championship Series, all of which were consecutive, and all of which matched them against Princeton. Princeton also made
Ivy League to refer to the Ancient Eight plus several other schools for purposes of alumni associations, university affiliations, or endowment comparisons. In his book "Untangling the Ivy League", Zawel writes, "The inclusion of non–Ivy League schools under this term is commonplace for some schools and extremely rare for others. Among these other schools, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University are almost always included. The University of Chicago and Duke University are often included as well." In their 2015 book "Acing Admissions", Mehta and Dixit write, "The ["Ivy Plus" schools] include, but are not limited to: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),