After the most successful season of Indiana baseball in 2013, the Hoosiers are looking to make a return trip to the College World Series and match their Big Ten regular season and tournament championships in 2014.

 

The season's promotional look will highlight the myriad of top talents on the Hoosier roster this season, which with the help of our fantastic staff photographer, we took amazing promotional photos of.

 

The season theme of 'The Greatest...On Turf' stems from the fact that the Hoosiers play ball on the nation's first fully artificial turf field, including batting box and pitcher's mound. When building Bart Kaufman Stadium, which opened prior to the 2013 season, the decision for an all-turf field was made the give the team every advantage it could while dealing with a colder, northern climate. For decades, teams north of the Mason-Dixson line had struggled to get results mainly due to climate issues.

 

The team's success exploded in 2013 and, besides the obvious talent on the field, the sucess was credited to the extra time the team got to train on field in the winter and play a longer home schedule because of the all-turf field. No longer would the climate make the field unplayable.

 

So, it is with great hope that Hoosier baseball fans look to the 2014 team as 'The Greatest...On Turf'