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In 150-plus years of professional baseball, through the dead-ball era, the steroid era, and everything in between, nobody had ever combined power and speed so consistently right out of the gate.

College baseball has spent much of the last three decades bouncing between offensive extremes, from the gorilla ball to the dead ball and back to a bombs-away mentality.

The dead-ball era refers to the time period from 1900 to 1920, where scoring and home runs were much lower than in the following years.

A university that reinstated baseball during college baseball's dead ball era, Oregon was never known for its power-hitting.

Unlike most Dead Ball Era hitters, he held his hands way down by the knob of the bat, refusing to choke up.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds’ re-creation of the dead-ball era has them doing something that hadn’t happened in the major leagues in 65 years. Cincinnati has lost 1-0 in each of its ...

But the Bruins’ pitching wasn’t as dominant as it was in 2013, and college baseball isn’t in a dead-ball era like it was then.

Happ played his college ball at the University of Cincinnati. That puts them on pace for 25 shutouts this season, which would break the franchise record of 24 set during the dead-ball era.

— Andrew McCutchen (@TheCUTCH22) June 14, 2025 The dead-ball era refers to the time period from 1900 to 1920, where scoring and home runs were much lower than in the following years.