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I remember sitting across from Harvard baseball coach Joe Walsh in his office at the athletic complex in early March. We had just wrapped up a 45-minute interview for a feature I was writing about him for The Crimson’s annual baseball/softball supplement.
Walsh, who former Crimson writer Martin Bell correctly called a “walking embodiment of the mystical fabric that connects the games of baseball and life,” has a uniquely thoughtful, eloquent, and folksy way of talking that makes him a dream quote for any reporter.
As I gathered my things to leave Walsh’s office, I mentioned that I was reading a book for my thesis on the turbulent, racially-charged period of school desegregation in Boston during the 1970s. I asked Walsh, who grew up in Dorchester and long ago determined the...
Walsh spoke candidly about the racial tension that left its mark on every corner of Boston, about his family’s connections to the local political machine, and how they knew the judge who ordered the city’s schools desegregated. But he also personalized the era in...
It was a history lesson that, as they say, you can’t find in a book, and it happened because I was writing a sports story for The Crimson.