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Such is not the case for freshmen Zak Farkes and Josh Klimkiewicz. Both went to school at Buckingham, Browne & Nichols High School, a prestigious private day school within five minutes walking distance from Harvard’s athletic facilities. Both played baseball together for BB&N, winning Independent School League championships in 2001 and 2002. And both will be playing the infield for this year’s Harvard baseball squad. “If you hit a bomb on our field, it can land in BB&N, where Zak and Josh played,” Walsh says...
...coached,” Forestiere says. “Zak is one of the best to ever play the game at BB&N. He’s a leader, he’s the hardest of workers and he’s extraordinarily talented. He’s irreplaceable. Josh is the best high school hitter I’ve seen or coached. He’s offensively scary...
...Josh,he’s got great power potential. I spent ten years in Wareham in the Cape Cod League, and I’ve never seen any player take a ball over the center field fence. When Klim was a junior, I saw him—with a wooden bat—drive a ball over the centerfield fence there. I just said, ‘Whoa!’ That doesn’t come along too often...
...Josh and I use competition to push each other,” Farkes says. “We really just want to see the other one do better. We’ve been friends for a long time, going through the process together and having similar conversations about ending up where we are today...
During the Spring of 1999, Houston fell in love with a 6’5 fireballer named Josh Beckett. Beckett, the Florida Marlins’ opening day starter this year, threw 96 mph consistently his final two seasons. His senior year, he went 10-1 with a 0.46 ERA and more than two strikeouts per inning. He was the nation’s back-to-back high school player of the year. He was also Hendricks’ teammate...