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Albert Hamilton Gordon '23, financier--Doctor of Laws...
...other degree recipients are Albert H. Gordon '23, chairman of Kidder Peabody and Co., Inc., a New York stock brokerage firm; Richard W. Southern, medieval scholar and president of St. John's College, Oxford, England; Eudora Welty, novelist and short story writer; and Marian Anderson, contralto...
...Gordon, the only businessman in the group, is widely known at Harvard as one of the University's most generous alumni, and has been particularly involved in developing the varsity athletic program here...
...there is a resiliency in the game of baseball which makes it unlikely that the worst of our fears will be realized, and it is the stuff of that toughness that Angell recognizes and celebrates. My favorite essay in the book concerns Max Lapides, Don Shapiro, and Bert Gordon, three middle-aged Jewish diehard fans whose friendship and happiness hinges on the fortunes of the Detroit Tigers. They know literally everything about their team since the '30s--not baseball trivia, as Don explains, because "you can't say 'baseball trivia'...it's a contradiction in terms. It's antithetical." Bert...
...baseball fan can linger nostalgically over these moments, precisely collected in Five Seasons, as if they were old family snapshots. Angell's love of the game is infectious; it is friends like him, Max Lapides, Don Shapiro, and Bert Gordon that will keep the sport safe from Howard Cosell, the Big "A", and all the other forces threatening to transform the subtle pleasures of baseball into just another entertainment. --Seth Kaplan