Now that it’s almost that time of year, and the calendar is rapidly coming to the end of the college baseball season, it’s just about time for the most exciting postseason in sports. With the the regionals, super regionals and finally the College World Series, baseball at the college ranks has really found a way to get people interested and involved in the entire event.
However, once people really start paying attention, there is always one question that occurs to them:
Why is the College World Series in Omaha?
That question is even more apropos because the first three years of the CWS weren't played in Omaha. When the college world series was first created, it spent two seasons located in Kalamazoo, Michigan then moved to Wichita, Kansas for a season.
Why is the College World Series in Omaha?
The answer to the question of why is the College World Series in Omaha is thanks to former Omaha mayor Jonny Rosenblatt. However, even his idea first started as building the Omaha Municipal Stadium, with the express purpose of drawing in minor league baseball.
Things changed when Rosenblatt and a group of investors saw that the College World Series was being played in Wichita and decided that if a smaller Kansas town could host the event so could his Nebraska home. They did indeed build the stadium, eventually called Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium and in 1950, it hosted the first CWS.
Omaha has been hosting the final tournament ever since, even when it moved out of Rosenblatt and into a more modern and newest Schwab Field.