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