The Providence College baseball program started in 1921 and Ed Wineapple was their first player to make it to the Major League level.

The "Friars" expression first appeared in an April 9, 1929 Providence Journal sports story prior to the start of the 1929 baseball season, describing a game against Northeastern University, and in 1932 it became more officially recognized as the one true cognomen for Providence College.

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