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...former unanimous All-Ivy selection and 24th-round draft choice of the Arizona Diamondbacks batted .296/.347/.442 (AVG/OBP/SLG) in 300 at-bats, leading the team in RBI with 42. His eight home runs were good for second on the team...
Farkes, a Boston native and lifelong Red Sox fan who grew up in the shadow of Fenway, turned down a chance to join his favorite team after being selected in the 39th round of the 2004 draft, a decision he would later regret. After an injury-plagued junior campaign in which his numbers nevertheless recovered during a white hot April and May, Farkes went undrafted in June. He signed with the Red Sox as a free agent in July...
Frank Herrmann ended his junior year at Harvard with no intention of signing a professional baseball contract. He was excited about pitching this upcoming season, and besides, the 2005 Draft had come and gone long...
...enthusiasts have Fantasy Football. Now there?s a game for armchair fans who would rather root for Dolce & Gabbana. The Fantasy Fashion League (draft 10-person teams from a list of 160 designers and celebrities. Points are awarded for every appearance in such magazines as IN STYLE and Vanity Fair and on the red carpet for such events as the Emmys and the Academy Awards (the climax of the league?s 24-week season). The winner gets a $1,000 shoe-shopping spree. Tailgate party optional...
...know, The Unsuitable Boy, The Unsuitable Girl, The Suitable Couple." A joke, right? "I don't know," deadpans the author of very long books, "but it'll be something short. As a reader, I'm very impatient." As a great-nephew, however, he is very patient. An early draft of Two Lives was tinged with bitterness: Shanti, at the end of his life, committed an act of family betrayal that Seth cannot fully understand, but in the final version forgives. After all, the man was family, and thus familiarly human. "Behind every door," writes Seth toward...