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Trade paperback. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. [2], 207, [3] pages. 8.5 inches by 11 inches format. Illustrated. Cover has some wear and soiling. The LSU Tigers baseball team represents Louisiana State University in NCAA Division I college baseball. The team participates in the West Division of the Southeastern Conference. It is one of the elite college baseball programs in the nation, ranking seventh all-time with 17 College World Series appearances and second all-time with six national championships. The Tigers play home games on LSU's campus at Alex Box Stadium/Skip Bertman Field. This is the 2008 LSU Baseball Official Yearbook. The LSU Diamond opened in March 1938. Its construction in part came from the Works Progress Administration. It was later renamed in 1943 as the Alex Box Stadium, after an LSU baseball and football letterman who was killed in North Africa during WWII. It served as the spring training site for the New York Giants in its early years. The LSU teams have won five College World Series Championships, six Southern Conference Championships, and have appeared in numerous NCAA Regional Tournaments. This official yearbook contains information on LSU Olympians, LSU players in the Major League Draft, LSU players in the Major Leagues, and LSU athletes who made the First-Team All-Americans. There is a history section from page 110 to 128 that includes a narrative on the early history of LSU baseball. During the program's first thirty seasons, LSU had a total of 15 head coaches. No coach's tenure lasted longer than two seasons, with the exception of C.C. Stroud, who was head coach for eight seasons. Stroud coached LSU from 1914-1921 and had an overall record of 73-58-5 (.595). The program won at least ten games during four of his eight seasons as head coach. In 1927, Harry Rabenhorst became head baseball coach and became the longest tenured head baseball coach in LSU history. Rabenhorst began his career at LSU in 1925 as the head coach of the men's basketball team and two years later, in 1927, he also added head baseball coach to his duties. As baseball coach, he won two SEC baseball titles and was named SEC Coach of the Year in 1939 and 1946. Rabenhorst coached the baseball team from 1927 until 1942 when he left to serve in World War II. When he returned, he again coached the baseball team from 1946 until 1956. He finished his baseball coaching career with a record of 220-226-3. Later, as an athletic department administrator, he became the school's athletic director in 1967. In 1938, LSU's new baseball stadium, referred to as either LSU Diamond or LSU Varsity Baseball Field, opened. The stadium was later renamed Alex Box Stadium for Simeon Alex Box, an LSU letterman (1942) who was killed in North Africa during World War II. A.L. Swanson (1943-1945) During Rabenhorst's absence serving in World War II, A.L. Swanson served as head coach from 1943 to 1945. The Tigers won the 1943 SEC Championship under Swanson.