Author Archives: Sara Salam

After seven consecutive losses, the UCLA baseball team is reeling.

The season thus far for the UCLA baseball team has been one of mounting frustration, founded for the most part upon a lack of execution and bad luck.

For much of the opening leg of the season, the UCLA baseball team has fallen victim to the recurring theme of failing to deliver in the clutch.

The offensive production was there. The bats were cracking and the base paths had runners.
But the Bruins just couldn’t convert.

The No. 12 UCLA baseball team has spent the last several months preparing themselves for the dawn of a new season.

Every year, Bruins representing different eras of UCLA baseball history, some hailing from the days of legendary coach Gary Adams, some from the current era of John Savage and all those in between, return to Jackie Robinson Stadium to play another nine innings in Westwood during the UCLA baseball alumni game.

Jack Gifford, a former first baseman for the UCLA baseball team and former CEO of Maxim Integrated Products Inc., passed away on the night of Jan. 11 at his vacation home in Hawaii. He was 68.