The Sun Devils have won five national championships, the fourth-most by any school, and are 1st in total number of alumni to ever play in Major League Baseball.
[4] Notable Sun Devil baseball alumni include Barry Bonds, Jim Palmer Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Dustin Pedroia, Andre Ethier, Bob Horner, Paul Lo Duca, and Rick Monday.
Under the guidance of coach Bobby Winkles, the Sun Devils finished their first season with a 28–18–1 record.
In 1964, Coach Winkles led the team to a 44–7 record, winning the Western Athletic Conference title.
Once again, the Sun Devils followed up their national championship season with a second place conference finish and failed to receive a postseason berth.
In 1969 the Devils were able to return to the World Series winning the WAC championship against BYU, then swept Idaho 7–1 and 3–2 in the District 7 playoff.
A three-time NCAA Coach of the Year, Winkles took the ASU program from scratch and built it into one of the premier powerhouses in all of college baseball.
Winkles Field-Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark, located in Tempe, was the home of Arizona State baseball from 1974 to 2014.
The outfield wall is lined with orange trees and just beyond the left field fence lies the Salt River which winds its way through the Valley of the Sun.