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...attention to his grit, scrappiness, or heart as attributes that somehow act to will his team to victory, a blow is struck against the diffusion of quantifiable knowledge that is raising the game to the level of efficiency its fans deserve. It was such a blow that knocked Paul DePodesta ‘95, one of the protagonists in Michael Lewis’s 2003 book “Moneyball,” from his seat as general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers last fall...
...growing trend of Ivy League graduates filling front-office positions. Last year, newly named Tampa Bay Devil Rays team president Matthew Silverman ’98 joined the Rangers’ Jon Daniels (Cornell), the Red Sox’ Theo Epstein (Yale), and former Dodgers’ GM Paul DePodesta (Harvard) as the fifth former Ivy League graduate to run a major league team. Even the top dog of my team, Mark Shapiro, is a former Princeton Tiger...
...characteristic irreverence and self-confidence. One can also imagine that he was just kidding, or maybe using his playoff success to rail against the emerging Ivy League baseball intelligentsia (like Boston Red Sox general manager and Yale grad Theo Epstein, or recently deposed Dodgers GM Paul DePodesta ’95, or Oakland A’s assistant GM David Forst ’98, or Florida Marlins vice president and assistant GM Mike Hill ’93).But speaking as someone currently enrolled in his second semester of Intermediate Spanish—as well as the roommate...
Harvardians have plied their trade in virtually every field of sports management (reference Los Angeles Dodgers GM Paul DePodesta ’95, among many, many others); TV media (James Brown ’73 of FOX Sports’ high-profile NFL studio show); and print media (Daniel G. Habib ’00 of Sports Illustrated, who is also a Crimson editor...
...DePodesta, it seems, was once so rung by a hit from an opposing free safety after a first-down catch—he was a Crimson wide receiver—that he then mistakenly scuffled his way to the opposing huddle...