Cal baseball, saved from budget ax, plays in College World Series today - BLAIR KERKHOFF, The Kansas City Star

In September, the university identified baseball as one of five sports to cut for budget purposes. The 2011 season would be the last for the program. Cal had sponsored baseball since 1892 and had won two College World Series, including the first in 1947. Now it would be gone, and alarms went off throughout college baseball. “My big concern was if they could drop it, how many others would look at dropping baseball?” asked Dave Keilitz, executive director of the American Baseball Coaches Association.