The recruitment of quality student athletes is one of the most important responsibilities of a collegiate coach. Stanford baseball coach Mark Marquess, who’s teams have won two NCAA national championships and qualified for 11 college world series, makes this point clear when he stated “recruiting is the lifeblood of a successful college baseball program” (Kindall & Winkin, 2000, p.84). The importance of recruiting has also been reiterated by such coaching legends as John Wooden, Pat Summit, Joe Paterno, and Dean Smith. These coaching legends indicated that a team needs a high level of talent in order to be successful (Packer & Lazenby, 1999). It appears that consistent recruiting of high level talent is important for teams to be successful over a long period of time. However, there is a lack of empirical investigations of factors that influence the college selection process of collegiate student-athletes. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the factors that may be influential in the college selection process of baseball student-athletes. A second purpose was to investigate the differences between baseball student-athletes from each of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Divisions (Division I, II, and II). The participants in this study were 320 collegiate baseball student-athletes from 12 colleges and universities in the Midwest. The participants completed the Influential Factors Survey for Student Athletes (IFSSA). The IFSSA was a 32-item survey that can be separated into five sections (athletics, coaching staff, academics, social, and financial aid). Results of the study were analyzed using descriptive statistics and a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). Descriptive statistics showed the five most influential factors to be a winning program, opportunity to play early in career, baseball specific facilities, coach’s personality/philosophy, and tradition of the athletic program. The MANOVA revealed factors related to athletics as the most influential for baseball student-athletes. Results also showed that Division III baseball student-athletes viewed academics significantly more influential than Division I and II student-athletes. Division II baseball student-athletes viewed financial aid to be significantly more influential than Division I or Division III student-athletes.