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D1Baseball

American baseball website

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ138641627
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D1Baseball is an American sports journalism website that covers college baseball, specifically at the NCAA Division I level.

Services

D1Baseball provides online news coverage of Division I college baseball, while also providing weekly rankings of the Top 25 teams in Division I baseball. D1Baseball's rankings are among the premier and widely cited rankings in college baseball.

History

D1Baseball was founded as NCAA-Baseball.com in 2003 by Jeremy Mills, who would go on to serve on as a college baseball researcher for ESPN. Cynthia Mills, Jeremy's wife, would assume control of the site in 2006. In 2015, D1Baseball relaunched under the leadership of former major leaguer and ESPN college baseball personality Kyle Peterson. The website underwent a "aggressive expansion" into collegiate baseball reporting at this time, as the American Baseball Coaches Association described. The website hired Aaron Fitt, a national writer at Baseball America, and Kendall Rogers, a managing editor of college baseball at Perfect Game. In 2018, the website hired David Siefert, a former area scout for the Philadelphia Phillies, as its director of college scouting.

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This entry incorporates text from D1Baseball” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.