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...sure. Crimson baseball captain Charlie Santos-Buch has some very Chip Hiltonesque characteristics...
From the beginning, since Little League in a suburb of Atlanta, Charlie Santos-Buch has been a winner. Sure, he's got a lot of natural athletic ability. He has enough ability to have garnered all-state honors on the parallel bars at a Darien, Conn., junior high and to have excelled in several sports through high school...
After transferring from Darien High School to the Taft School, which Santos-Buch calls a big turning point in his life, he almost immediately stepped into starring roles in three sports, playing safety and halfback in football, point guard on the hardcourt, and shortstop and second on the diamond. He soon was elected captain of the Taft baseball squad, and in his senior year broke most of the school baseball records...
...choice was made with good reason. By his sophomore year he was an All-Ivy outfielder, a laurel which he garnered again last year. His Harvard baseball career reached a high point last season with his election as captain. Coach Alan Nahigian lauds the team's choice, calling Santos-Buch "a leader without peer...
...Santos-Buch himself is the first to admit that all of his success does not derive from pure athletic ability. His self-perception always comes back to one characteristic--determination. Referring specifically to football, he says a little ruefully, "I had to be determined and aggressive and put out 180 per cent or get my head knocked...