Baseball’s elite

The eight teams — LSU, Florida State, Cal State Fullerton, Oregon State, TCU, Florida, Texas A&M and Louisville — in this year’s College World Series have made a combined 90 trips to the CSW and have won 12 national championships.

“This isn’t a CWS,” wrote Tom Shetel of the Omaha World-Herald, “it’s a two-week episode of Blue Bloods.

“We’ve come to expect, and appreciate, the underdog in college baseball. Coastal Carolina was the latest to capture our imagination.

“But Cinderella wasn’t invited this year.”