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...moments of possibility themselves, personalities aside. There had been other moments in the mist for him—a win from seven runs down against Brown in the rain at O’Donnell Field that was as or more improbable than a Frank Herrmann three-run homer would have been yesterday...
Consider that you could, right now, draw up a list of every conceivable play that could ever happen in an at-bat. Every situation. 6-4-3, happens twice a game or so. Grounder to first, 3 unassisted. Single. Homer. Strikeout. There is nothing that can be done that has not been thought...
...even within these constraints, ceilings that create a sense of reality and limitation, baseball games are events of infinite promise. That three-run homer could be Frank Herrmann off of Thomas Pauly...
...that students take a class that deals exclusively with the areas of our civilization’s greatest ignorance in either science, the humanities or the social sciences. How does the brain work? What is the ultimate fate of the universe? Why do economic theories fail so often? Did Homer actually live, and does that even matter? Although these questions will likely not be solved for many years, if ever, they can serve as inspiration. They can define the broad outlines of a life spent searching for answers. Four years at Harvard teaches us all how to give good answers...
Wahlberg gave up three runs the rest of the way, more than enough after freshman Josh Klimkiewicz’s three-run homer keyed a four-run, bottom of the fourth for the Crimson...