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Rooney: Is parity in college baseball a thing of the past?

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I hate that I just asked that question. But I’m concerned.

At the risk of sounding hypocritical, I loved the historic powers of my younger days. Those were brand-name programs like USC, Arizona State, Texas, Miami, Florida State, Wichita State, and Oklahoma State. The next wave of my fandom included Clemson, Rice, LSU, and South Carolina. And of course, there are many other traditional powers that I could mention here.

But all the while, Augie Garrido and the Cal State Fullerton Titans provided baseball with something that no other major collegiate sport had: an underdog that could win the whole thing. The[…]

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