1998 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series 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 their third appearance in the Championship Series.
Ivy League was formally designated as "Ivy Day" in 1874. Ivy planting ceremonies are reported for Yale, Simmons, Bryn Mawr and many others. Princeton's "Ivy Club" was founded in 1879. The first usage of "Ivy" in reference to a group of colleges is from sportswriter Stanley Woodward (1895–1965). The first known instance of the term "Ivy League" being used appeared in "The Christian Science Monitor" on February 7, 1935. Several sportswriters and other journalists used the term shortly later to refer to the older colleges, those along the northeastern seaboard of the United States, chiefly the nine institutions with origins dating from