Entering his 29th season in the Johns Hopkins dugout, head coach Bob Babb continues to build the Blue Jays as one of the top teams in the East.

While guiding the program to national prominence, Babb has amassed a 787-280-10 (.735) record - 29th best in NCAA baseball history among all divisions. Among active head coaches in all divisions, he is the eighth winningest active skipper.

During Babb's tenure at Hopkins, the Blue Jays have captured 10 Middle Atlantic Conference Southeast League titles, eight Centennial Conference championships, seven University Athletic Association titles and a total of 13 NCAA Division III Tournament appearances.

Over the last six seasons, Babb has picked up several milestone victories. In 2002, he became the 14th active coach in Division III to win 600 career games with a 4-1 victory over Franklin & Marshall. Exactly three years later, Babb recorded his 700th win with a 7-5 triumph at home over Shenandoah. Babb picked up the 750th victory of his career in the season-opener last season against William Patterson. He enters the 2008 season needing 13 wins to reach 800 for his career.

In 1989, the Blue Jays had their most successful postseason ever, finishing with a 34-7 record and taking third place at the NCAA Division III World Series in their first and only trip to the final eight.

In 1998, Babb guided the Blue Jays to a then school-record 36 wins against just four losses. Hopkins was ranked as high as fourth in the nation during the regular season, won the Centennial Conference and UAA Championships and was the top seed in the 1998 NCAA III Mid-Atlantic Regional.

In 2003, Babb's team earned its sixth Centennial Conference Championship (its third straight) and won 25 or more games for the 11th consecutive season. The Blue Jays finished with a 34-7 record and a trip to the NCAA Regional Championships. He did this with a team that featured just two seniors in prominent roles.

The succes of the 2000's set the stage for 2004, when Hopkins posted a record-setting 40-4 mark the best record in the nation. The Blue Jays' .907 winning percentage in 2004 ranks as the third-best of any NCAA team in the 2000s. Hopkins set a NCAA record with a 33-game season opening winning streak and advanced to the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional final before bowing to Rowan, a Division III CWS participant that year.

The 2007 season saw the Blue Jays finishing with the second most wins in school history (38) while playing the most games in school history. Hopkins captured its eighth Centennial Conference Title and advanced to the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional final before falling to Kean in extra innings. Kean went on to win the College World Series.

Babb has led the Blue Jays to at least 30 wins in six of the last seven seasons. In his time wearing the Columbia Blue and Black, Babb has coached six first-team All-Americans and 10 of his players have gone on to play professionally. He was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.

Babb played baseball at Hopkins for four years from 1974 to 1977. The 1976 squad participated in the first NCAA Division III Championship Tournament, while the 1977 team won the Middle Atlantic Southeast title. Babb is still listed among the all-time leaders at Hopkins in doubles and stolen bases.

A 1977 graduate of Johns Hopkins, Babb taught social studies for two years at Lansdowne High School. During this time, he served as assistant baseball and football coach at Hopkins under Dennis Cox, who is back in the coaching ranks this season as JHU's catchers coach. In 1980, he received his master's degree from Morgan State and also became the head baseball coach at Johns Hopkins. Babb was an assistant football coach at JHU from 1977 through 1998, having both coached current head coach Jim Margraff and later serving as one of Margraff's assistants. During his final four seasons as a member of the Blue Jay football staff (1995-98) he helped guide the team to a 27-12-1 (.688) record. At the time, it was the winningest four-year period in school history.

Additionally, Babb has been the director of the Johns Hopkins University Summer Sports Day Camp since 1982. He currently serves on the Centennial Conference Baseball Coaches Committee and is a member of both the American Baseball Coaches Association, the editorial committee for the ABCA and the Maryland Old-Timers Baseball Association. Babb also participates on the board of directors of the Roland Park Little League.

The "Friends of Hopkins Baseball" organization, established to help raise funds for the baseball program, was founded by Babb in 1980. "Friends of Hopkins Baseball" is now under the Blue Jays Unlimited umbrella. A member of the Johns Hopkins Athletics Hall of Fame Committee, Babb was the director of the H-Club prior to the introduction of Blue Jays Unlimited in 1994. Babb also instituted the Johns Hopkins Baseball Old-Timers' Game in the early 1980's and has kept the tradition.

Babb and his wife, Gilly, live in Baltimore with their children, Gillian (19), Olivia (16) and Andrew (12).