COLUMBIA, Mo. — Steve Bieser’s T-shirt said enough. Sitting in his office at Taylor Stadium on a recent afternoon, Bieser wore the word “battle” scripted across his chest — a word that tells the story of Missouri’s baseball season and, in some ways, his seven-year run as the Tigers’ head coach.
Matched against challenges unlike his peers across the baseball-crazed Southeastern Conference, Bieser manages a program in the league’s northwestern post with minuscule margin for error and, seemingly, never enough resources.
But his Tigers have battled this season, through weather, through injuries, through the annual unforgiving SEC schedule.