Baseball: Former OSU standout Borland dies
BY Staff and Wire Reports
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Tom Borland, the MVP of the 1955 College World Series for Oklahoma State who later briefly pitched for the Boston Red Sox, has died. He was 80.
OSU said Borland died during the weekend.
Borland was a left-handed pitcher at Oklahoma A&M, now known as Oklahoma State, during its College World Series appearances in 1954 and 1955. He went 19-2 with 271 strikeouts at the school. He was 11-0 in 1955.
