Oklahoma has won two national championships in baseball (1951 and 1994) and finished as national runner-up one other time (2022), but those premier achievements may not represent the best teams or time in the 128-year history of Sooner baseball.
Over a five-year stretch between 1972 and 1976, Oklahoma won 240 games, made six consecutive College World Series appearances and won four straight Big Eight championships, preceded by a second-place finish in 1972. Those five seasons, in which the Sooners compiled a record of 240-66, a .784 winning percentage, represents arguably the best single stretch of time in Oklahoma baseball history.
Unfortunately, the Sooners' College World Series experience during that time left much to be desired. Those five 1970 seasons represent almost half of OU's now 12 total trips to the CWS, but with not nearly the success of the other six Omaha visits. The Sooners were 5-10 at the CWS from 1972 through the '76 season, with fourth place in 1975 as their highest finish.
In six other trips to the CWS (1951, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2010 and 2022), Oklahoma came away with its two national championships and a runner-up finish.
10 other lesser-known facts from Oklahoma baseball history
- Oklahoma's two winningest seasons in baseball came in back-to-back years in 1975 and 1976. The Sooners won 52 games in 1975 and bettered that by seven, winning an all-time best 62 games in 1976. They have recorded two 50-win seasons (in 1994 and 2010), advancing to the CWS in both seasons.
- The most home runs in a single season in OU history is 26 by Casey Bookout in 1998. He averaged a home run every 8.5 at bats that season. By contrast, the NCAA Division I all-time record is 48 by Pete Incaviglia of Oklahoma State in 1985.
- There have been nine no-hitters in Oklahoma baseball history but no perfect games. The most recent was in 2024, a 13-0 combined no-hitter against West Virginia.
- Bob Shirley has the most career wins by an Oklahoma pitcher with 31 between 1973 and 1975. The most wins in a single season is 15 by Mark Redman in 1995. Both pitchers went on to 10-plus-year careers in the MLB.
- Oklahoma defeated Kansas State 29-4 in a game in 2009. The Sooners hit a program record 11 home runs in that game, a record that still stands today.
- The largest attendance at Oklahoma's L. Dale Mitchell Park was 5,177 at a 2025 game between Oklahoma and Texas. The Sooners won that game 8-6. The stadium opened in 1982 and has a current capacity of 3,180 while now being known as Kimrey Family Stadium.
- The Sooners' longest winning streak in program history is 24 games in the 1975 season. OU opened the season going 4-2 through the first six games before reeling off 24 consecutive victories.
- Dale Mitchell, the OU alum and player after whom the Sooners' stadium was named, hit .506 in the 1946 season, the highest batting average in a single season by any Oklahoma player in Sooner baseball history.
- Oklahoma went 240 games between 1993 and 1997 without being shut out, a team record.
- In the 16th game of the 1989 Oklahoma baseball season, the 10-5 Sooners scored 33 runs in a 33-2 rout of Northern Iowa in Norman. That represents a program record for the most runs in a single game.
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