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When Hendricks committed to Harvard, the Crimson was coming off three straight Ivy titles and was a year removed from a No. 24 national ranking. Harvard had become one of the top baseball programs above the Mason-Dixon line, and Crimson coach Joe Walsh was using that to bring in...
So the name and the fame got Hendricks to come on an official visit in late November of 1999. He arrived the Sunday after Harvard-Yale, and it was a balmy 75 degrees. Despite the comparatively poor facilities and the general sluggishness of the campus—typical of post...
“Everyone was just hanging in their rooms,” Hendricks says. “So I went over to DeWolfe, and I was really impressed with the rooms, and I liked the players. I thought they were a good bunch of guys. And just the name...
Hendricks, of course, was accepted, but not before being courted by a plethora of other schools. He was recruited by Baylor, Georgia Tech, Miami of Ohio, Fresno State, Tulane and Wichita State, among others. But besides Harvard, two schools truly tempted Hendricks—Rice and West Point.
“When I had a great senior season, they came knocking, but it was too late,” Hendricks says. “I was already committed to Harvard. I didn’t want to renege on my commitment.”