| The University of Southern California has a | | | | have not played very much over the next four |
| baseball team, the Trojans. The USC Trojans are | | | | years with only 3 college games being recorded. |
| undoubtedly one of the very best college baseball | | | | Between 1898 and 1902, the USC Trojans |
| teams to every play the game. Over 95 of the | | | | baseball team suffered one bad season after |
| baseball players from the college level who've | | | | another. In 1902 this changed with the arrival of |
| made it into the Major Leagues played for the | | | | pitcher Rube Waddell, one of the stars of college |
| USC Trojans. USC has also appeared in 21 College | | | | baseball at the time who eventually went on to |
| World Series events and has won the most | | | | become a Hall of Fame inductee after playing on |
| games in the this event as well, 70 in total. | | | | 4 different Major League teams. He was, without |
| The USC Trojans are also one of the oldest | | | | a doubt, responsible for the upturn in fortune of |
| college baseball teams. The Trojans played their | | | | the Trojans college baseball team. |
| very first university baseball game in 1889 on the | | | | The fortune of the Trojans college baseball team |
| college campus. Unfortunately, the college team | | | | was extremely mixed in the pre-World War 1 |
| lost this game which may account for the fact | | | | years and the team was even abolished for a |
| that there aren't any recorded games until 1892. | | | | season during 1913. This was to enable the college |
| This time, the University of Southern California | | | | to focus on track and field sports. Of course the |
| Trojans won against the Woodbury Business | | | | war years led to a decline in all sports, including |
| College by a score of 14-3. The USC Trojans had | | | | baseball, but the Trojans college baseball team |
| a total of 20 players on their college baseball | | | | was fully re-instated in 1920. The University of |
| squad that year and finished it as an undefeated | | | | Southern Californaia baseball team went from |
| squad. | | | | strength to strength and was finally rewarded by |
| The very next year the Trojans played 10 | | | | becoming a member of a college baseball |
| games during the college baseball season. | | | | conference in 1927 and they haven't looked back |
| However, the USC baseball team appeared to | | | | since. |