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I remember sitting across from Harvard baseball coach Joe Walsh in his office at the athletic complex in early March. We had just wrapped up a 45-minute interview for a feature I was writing about him for The Crimson’s annual baseball/softball supplement.
As I gathered my things to leave Walsh’s office, I mentioned that I was reading a book for my thesis on the turbulent, racially-charged period of school desegregation in Boston during the 1970s. I asked Walsh, who grew up in Dorchester and long ago determined the...
Walsh spoke candidly about the racial tension that left its mark on every corner of Boston, about his family’s connections to the local political machine, and how they knew the judge who ordered the city’s schools desegregated. But he also personalized the era in...
I remember the Crimson Sports staff joking about how my co-chair Dixon McPhillips and I didn’t even like sports. This may have been an exaggeration, but it’s true that we approached our jobs intent on delivering content that transcended athletics.
They spent time as pen pals first, but before they reconnected face-to-face, Antonio—who requested that his last name not be printed—wrote that he knew there was something special about the woman writing back.