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...wait, it appears, was worth it. After being selected much lower than expected in last year’s Major League Baseball amateur draft, Harvard senior Ben Crockett chose to take a temporary pass on the big leagues and return to school. Now, a year later, he has just completed an extraordinary senior season, he’s in line to receive his Harvard degree tomorrow and he’s heading to the big leagues, after...
Crockett was selected by the Colorado Rockies in the third round of the 2002 draft yesterday. The Rockies—whose director of player development is former Harvard baseball captain Mike Hill ’93—plucked Crockett with the 81st overall pick...
Last year, the Boston Red Sox selected the Topsfield, Mass., product in the June draft, but not until the 10th round. Leading up to the draft, Crockett had been projected to go as high as the 53rd overall pick. The draft-day freefall likely stemmed from concern over an elbow injury that Crockett had suffered the previous fall...
Angry naval cadets told The Crimson the new policy was “an obvious breach of contract.” Many withdrew from the program, giving up their draft immunity to face the prospect of leaving the College and entering...
Harvard instituted a ranking system for the first time so that the University could provide draft boards with academic information about each student...