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...Lopez plays all kinds of ball. A running backon the Westminster football team for all fouryears of high school, he intends to join Harvard'sprogram next year after getting settled in. Anddespite all the time spent on the field and in theweight room training, like many Harvard athletesLopez managed to maintain a highly competitive(4.2) grade point average in high school...
...even he is doubtful about fitting inacademically at Harvard, a huge change from thetiny Catholic high school back home. Theadjustment to college is tricky to begin with, butfor Lopez, the son of working-class Cubanimmigrants, Harvard poses a special culture shock...
...struggling with Expos, but Lopez isno stranger to buckling down. As fellow studentswere doing homework or relaxing at home last year,Lopez practiced with the Warriors "from 3:09 untilit got dark," Afterwards he would put in anadditional two hours with his hitting instructoror at the batting cage. And weekends were noexception. On Saturdays, he trained from 9 a.m.until evening...
...baseball all day, all week,everything," Lopez says. "[Westminster Christian]is like a little baseball factory...
There is a trace of bravado in the stockyoutfielder's voice as he reels off the numbers,but then perhaps that isn't surprising. Lopez washeavily recruited in his senior year, attractingthe interest of the Atlanta Braves and PittsburghPirates. In July he ever appeared in a MiamiHerald magazine cover story...