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
Yale University a Title IX steering committee to address complaints of sexual misconduct. Yale, like other Ivy League schools, instituted policies in the early 20th century designed to maintain the proportion of white Protestants from notable families in the student body (see "numerus clausus"), and was one of the last of the Ivies to eliminate such preferences, beginning with the class of 1970. Yale has a complicated relationship with its home city; for example, thousands of students volunteer every year in a myriad of community organizations, but city officials, who decry Yale's exemption from local property taxes, have long pressed the university