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...LeNeveu is able to surpass Ithaca’s puck icon before the season is through, don’t expect to see that famous picture of Dryden—wearing the old-style goalie mask and leaning his catcher on the cage during a stoppage of play—to be pushed out of the Cornell media guide anytime soon...
Kropf split time between catcher and third base last season, hitting .262 while seeing his time behind the plate dwindle as then-freshman Schuyler Mann established himself as one of the league’s best catchers. But he forever cemented his place in Harvard baseball lore last May in a one-game divisional playoff against Brown. With the Crimson’s season down to its final strike, Kropf’s RBI triple to right-center tied the game, and he scored the game-winning run moments later as Harvard lived to play another...
...transfer was instead motivated by playing time, it would appear more puzzling. With Mann’s continued growth and the return of former All-Ivy catcher Brian Lentz to Cambridge after a year off from school, Kropf was unlikely to see a great deal of time behind the plate. The void left at third by Nick Carter ’02 could very easily be filled by one of the team’s athletic freshman infielders. But at Vanderbilt, Kropf would seem to face even stiffer competition for daylight...
Vanderbilt junior Jonathan Douilliard, a Seattle Mariners draftee out of high school, has already been named the starter at catcher. Kropf joins three other catchers who will look for time behind...
...League Co-Pitcher of the Year last September after a 58-game relief stint with Class A Western Michigan. Birtwell went 7-2 with a 1.59 ERA and struck out 101 batters in 79.1 innings… With Lentz back in the lineup and a sudden, unprecedented logjam at catcher, Walsh has worked Mann out at first base and Lentz in left field to make a platoon situation possible… The Crimson will open its season during spring break against several Florida teams, then begin its home campaign against Rhode Island on April...