[OT] Cornellians in MLB

[Trotsky]

http://baseball-almanac.com/college/cornell_university_baseball_players.shtml

11 Cornell alumni have made it to the majors.  None has played since 1944, and the large majority played prior to the First World War.

[Trotsky]

Naturally, the first Cornellian ever to play in the majors, John Humphries, was a Canadian.  :-)

[Hillel Hoffmann]

My man Marlin McPhail '78 gets an A for effort. He had, what, about a decade in the minors? (Mostly at the AAA level.) Poor guy got stuck in the Expos organization behind the dude who holds about a gazillion franchise records, Tim Wallach. I think Marlin's still with the Mets organization now as a scout or coach or something.

[min]

small point: are the Fast Facts listed in the page indeed facts? i mean, where is "give my regards to davy" among the fight songs?
 
i don't think i ever heard of the first two fight songs while on the hill!

[CowbellGuy]

The second two are played at most hockey games. I think Cornell Victorious has pretty much been abandoned though.

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]CowbellGuy Wrote:

 The second two are played at most hockey games. I think Cornell Victorious has pretty much been abandoned though.[/q]

Is it no longer played in postgame concerts after football victories?

[Tub(a)]

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 [Q2]CowbellGuy Wrote:

 The second two are played at most hockey games. I think Cornell Victorious has pretty much been abandoned though.[/Q]
Is it no longer played in postgame concerts after football victories?[/q]

The new coach requested that we play the New Cornell Fight Song instead.

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]Tub(a) Wrote:

 [Q2]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 [Q2]CowbellGuy Wrote:

 The second two are played at most hockey games. I think Cornell Victorious has pretty much been abandoned though.[/Q]
Is it no longer played in postgame concerts after football victories?[/Q]
The new coach requested that we play the New Cornell Fight Song instead.[/q]

Erm, okay.  Any reason given for abandoning 90 years of tradition?

[Jerseygirl]

Maybe much like the slumping player who one day decides to put his left sock on first instead of his usual right sock, Coach Knowles decided to be a little superstitious and tweak a few "traditions" that hadn't been working out so well lately.

Or maybe he just didn't like the song.

[Tub(a)]

[Q]Jerseygirl Wrote:

 Maybe much like the slumping player who one day decides to put his left sock on first instead of his usual right sock, Coach Knowles decided to be a little superstitious and tweak a few "traditions" that hadn't been working out so well lately.

Or maybe he just didn't like the song.[/q]

Yeah, I think it was part of a "new attitude."

[Lauren '06]

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 [Q2]Tub(a) Wrote:

 [Q2]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 [Q2]CowbellGuy Wrote:

 The second two are played at most hockey games. I think Cornell Victorious has pretty much been abandoned though.[/Q]
Is it no longer played in postgame concerts after football victories?[/Q]
The new coach requested that we play the New Cornell Fight Song instead.[/Q]
Erm, okay.  Any reason given for abandoning 90 years of tradition?[/q]
Especially strange since he's a Cornell graduate.  Maybe he took "you can't call it Cornell Victorious, IT'S A JINX" a little too seriously during his first go around on the hill.

[KenP]

My Old Cornell is played at several events.  http://www.rso.cornell.edu/marchingband/songs/myoc.mp3

Haven't heard Cornell Victorius as often.  http://www.gleeclub.com/experience/music/soc/07.mp3

[JS \'93]

Anyone know how many Ivy Leaguers are now playing in MLB?

I only know of one player right now (there must be more??)--Chris Young--SP--Texas Rangers--Princeton Grad and 6'10" Rookie that has great potential and very solid stats to date.  

I know Doug Glanville was from Penn, but I believe he is retired.    

[KeithK]

Using the same Baseball Almanac site:
Princeton

[KeithK]

Using the same Baseball Almanac site, it seems to be only 2:
Princeton - 1 (Chris Young)
Dartmouth - 1 (Mike Remlinger)
but I can't seem to get a page for Penn.  I won't swear that the BA site is canonical, but it is thorough.