The Ohio State baseball team (0-1) fell to Arizona State (1-0), 9-8, in a back-and-forth game on Opening Day in Phoenix.

The Buckeye Trail Association was established as a nonprofit organization in June 1959 and on Sept. 19, 1959, the first 20 miles were dedicated in Hocking County. Within just a few years, the trail ran from the shores of Lake Erie to the banks of the Ohio River.