The 1951 Tennessee baseball team had to wait four decades to be honored for the program's first trip to the College World Series.
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By the time the team was honored four decades later, Anderson and left-handed pitcher John Huffstetler had died. They were both honored posthumously. There are now no living lettermen from the 1951 team, according to Tennessee athletics historian Bud Ford.
Hopkins said at the time he would have never dreamed the Vols still wouldn't have returned to Omaha 41 years later.
Absolutely not," Hopkins said. "Cy was fired by (athletic director Gen. Robert) Neyland and the program went down hill. It never got the support and went by the wayside."