WHAT IS SUMMER COLLEGE BASEBALL?
The Delaware Cows baseball team is a member of the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League... a wooden bat league, founded in 1986 and sanctioned by the NCAA and sponsored in part by Major League Baseball

The purpose of summer college baseball is to showcase those players exhibiting professional baseball potential who have at least one year of collegiate eligibility remaining. The Great Lakes League is one of nine sanctioned wooden bat leagues across the country that are regularly scouted by professional baseball.

WHO ARE THE COWS?
The Delaware Collegiate Baseball Club, Inc. was formed in 1991 and began play in the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League the following year. The Cows went 20-20 during their first summer and qualified for the GLSCL tournament for the first time the very next year. In 1996, the Cows earned a second trip to the league postseason tournament. Two years later, Delaware claimed its first GLSCL championship and duplicated the feat in 2001. Since 1998, the Cows have qualified for the GLSCL tournament every year except one.

Highlighting the 80 plus former Cows who went on to play professional baseball are 2001 first round draft pick John Van Benschoten, 2002 second round pick Steve Stanley and 2004 second round picks Brian Bixler and Mike Ferris.  In 2004, the Cows established a league record with 13 former Cows drafted.

The Delaware Cows baseball club is hosted by the community of Delaware, Ohio which is just about 15 miles north of Columbus, the state capitol. Home games are played at Littick Field on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University. The team travels to away games via Crosswell chartered bus service and ballplayers (except those who live in central Ohio or those housed by host families) reside in a university owned three story house on campus, known as the Tree House. Jobs are secured for any out of town ballplayer requesting one and they are given a complimentary membership to the local World Gym.

WHY ARE WE CALLED THE COWS?
One of the first tasks attended to after the franchise was formed was selecting a name. During the first year of play, the team was scheduled to play half of its games in Columbus and half in Delaware. Because of this, "Central Ohio" was selected as the team name. The original sponsor of the team was Wendy's Restaurants... so, taking the first initials of Central Ohio Wendy's, we became the Central Ohio Cows. Though we are now based solely in Delaware, the team nickname remains Cows since the Central Ohio region (of which Delaware is associated) has long been recognized for its agricultural heritage.