There are plenty of natural and supernatural reasons to believe that Stanford baseball can make it to the postseason.
Mark Marquess was born March 24th 1947 in Stockton, California. He grew up in California and would eventually attend and play baseball for Stanford University between 1965-1969. He played minor league baseball for 3 years before returning to Stanford as an assistant coach in 1972 and would eventually take over as head coach in 1977 and has been at Stanford ever since. As Marquess celebrates his 69th birthday on Thursday, he will have spent 49 of those years at Stanford University in some capacity.