1997 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series

The 1997 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series took place at Joseph J. O'Donnell Field in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 10 and 11, 1997. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. Harvard, the winner of the series, claimed their first title and the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 1997 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. It was Harvard's second appearance in the Championship Series, both of which were consecutive, and both of which matched them against Princeton.

1997 Ivy League
baseball tournament

Teams	2
Format	Best of three series
Finals site	Joseph J. O'Donnell Field Cambridge, Massachusetts
Champions	Harvard (1st title)
Winning coach	Joe Walsh (1st title)

1997 Ivy League baseball standings

	Conf									Overall
Team	W		L		T		PCT			W		L		T		PCT
Lou Gehrig
Princeton x‍‍‡‍y	10	–	10	–	0		.500			20	–	25	–	0		.444
Penn x‍‍‍	10	–	10	–	0		.500			19	–	21	–	0		.475
Cornell  ‍‍‍	7	–	13	–	0		.350			13	–	26	–	0		.333
Columbia  ‍‍‍	6	–	14	–	0		.300			12	–	25	–	1		.329
Red Rolfe
Harvard x‍‍‍	18	–	2	–	0		.900			34	–	16	–	0		.680
Yale  ‍‍‍	16	–	4	–	0		.800			24	–	19	–	0		.558
Dartmouth  ‍‍‍	11	–	9	–	0		.550			22	–	16	–	0		.579
Brown  ‍‍‍	2	–	18	–	0		.100			5	–	37	–	0		.119
x – Division champion ‡ – Championship Series champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 1997 Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Princeton defeated Penn, 11–3, on May 7 in a one-game playoff for the Gehrig Division. The Tigers also made their second appearance in the Championship Series. Princeton won the event in 1996.

Results

	Finals
	Princeton	2	2	4
	Harvard	1	4	22