High school baseball: Digging into history to crown national champions all the way back to 1910

Future MLB standouts like Alex Rodriguez, George Brett and Lou Gehrig have played on title teams.

Barbe (Lake Charles, La.) finished the 2021 high school baseball season as the MaxPreps National Champion, but the Buccaneers weren' the only team in the country to claim a national title this season. Four media outlets produced national baseball rankings in 2021 and each named a different national champion.

Perfect Game chose Stoneman Douglas (Parkland, Fla.), Baseball America chose Madison Central (Miss.) and Collegiate Baseball Newspaper chose St. Mary Prep (Orchard Lake, Mich.). Thus, there was no definitive, unanimous national champion. Over the past five seasons (not including 2020), a total of 14 teams can claim that they have been named national champions.

But having multiple national champions isn't a bad thing. ...

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