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The 1998 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series took place at Yale Field in New Haven, Connecticut, on May 12, 1998. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. Harvard, the winner of the series, claimed their second consecutive, and second overall, title and the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 1998 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. It was Harvard's third appearance in the Championship Series, all of which were consecutive, and all of which matched them against Princeton.[2]

Teams2
FormatBest of three series
Finals site
ChampionsHarvard (2nd title)
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1998 Ivy League
baseball tournament
Teams2
FormatBest of three series
Finals site
ChampionsHarvard (2nd title)
Winning coachJoe Walsh (2nd title)
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1998 Ivy League baseball standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L T PCTW L T PCT
Lou Gehrig
Princeton  x‍‍‍ 13–7–0 .65025–14–0 .641
Cornell  ‍‍‍ 12–8–0 .60018–18–1 .500
Penn  ‍‍‍ 9–11–0 .45014–21–1 .403
Columbia  ‍‍‍ 5–15–0 .25010–31–0 .244
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Harvard  x‍‍‡‍y 16–4–0 .80036–12–0 .750
Yale  ‍‍‍ 11–9–0 .55021–21–0 .500
Dartmouth  ‍‍‍ 7–13–0 .35023–18–0 .561
Brown  ‍‍‍ 7–13–0 .35012–34–0 .261
x – Division champion
‡ – Championship Series champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 1998[1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball
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Princeton also made their third appearance in the Championship Series. The Tigers won the event in 1996.

Results

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Princeton 6 4 —
Harvard 13 13 —

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