California Golden Bears baseball

The Bears play their home games at Evans Diamond.

In 1964, future major leaguer Mike Epstein batted .384 for the team and was named an All-American.

In 2010, the university announced that baseball would be one of five sports cut as a cost-cutting measure.

[3] Even donors from Stanford University, California's biggest rival, pitched in to help save the Golden Bears baseball team.

[4] The Bears would then make the NCAA tournament as a 3-seed and go on a Cinderella run to the College World Series before falling to #1 overall seed Virginia to finish the season ranked 8th in the nation.