The Missouri State Bears baseball team represents Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, and plays as an NCAA Division I college baseball program. The program dates from 1964 and moved up to Division I in 1983, spending its first seven Division I seasons in the Mid-Continent Conference before joining the Missouri Valley Conference in 1991. In 2025 the Bears moved to Conference USA when the university left the Valley. The team plays its home games on campus at Route 66 Stadium. Under former head coach Keith Guttin the Bears reached 12 NCAA Tournaments and made the College World Series in 2003, and across 29 seasons in the Missouri Valley Conference they won six regular-season titles and four conference tournaments. Twenty former Bears have gone on to play in Major League Baseball, the best known being the three-time All-Star Ryan Howard, who was the 2006 National League Most Valuable Player.
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The Missouri State Bears baseball team represents Missouri State University
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the program's inception in 1964
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which is located in Springfield, Missouri
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The Bears are an NCAA Division I college baseball program
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joined the Missouri Valley Conference in 1991 after seven seasons with the Mid-Continent Conference
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