Yale Bulldogs baseball Yale Bulldogs baseball The Yale Bulldogs baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The team is a member of the Ivy League, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. Yale's first baseball team was fielded in 1864. The team plays its home games at Yale Field in New Haven, Connecticut. The Bulldogs are coached by John Stuper. The Yale Bulldogs Baseball program was founded in 1868 as a team to compete with Harvard baseball. Yale played its first baseball game against Wesleyan College in September 1865.
Ivy League the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954. Seven of the eight schools were founded during the colonial period (Cornell was founded in 1865), and thus account for seven of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Ivy League schools are generally viewed as some of the most prestigious, and are ranked among the best universities worldwide by "U.S. News & World Report". All eight universities place in the top fourteen of the 2019 "U.S. News & World Report" national university rankings, including four Ivies in the top three (Columbia and Yale are tied for third). In the