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...phrase has become ingrained in the consciousness of every member of the JV baseball team. The famous words of Coach Sullivan, the veteran leader of the second citizens of O’Donnell field, uttered in his classic Boston accent, has become the catchphrase for the annual attempt of 30-some odd ordinary Harvard students to join in the rich tradition of their school’s intercollegiate athletic program...
That attempt is one that to an outsider might seem to be bordering on the futile. JV baseball is certainly not perfect. Each year the members of the team, myself included, begin wondering around the end of March whether or not there will even be a season at all. For the past two years, however, the call has gone out and a squad has been hastily assembled...
It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon in Cambridge, and the Harvard JV baseball team is battling UMass. I’m sitting in the dugout, hoping I’ll be called upon to pitch, when I overhear a reference to Pete Incaviglia, a semi-obscure Major League outfielder from the eighties and nineties...
...don’t score in the bottom of the sixth, and I jog to the mound to begin the last frame (JV usually plays seven-inning games...
...Watching them gives us a lot of confidence going into our race,” Stephens said. “In any other year, the guys in the JV boat would be in the varsity boat...