Word: mounded
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...senior Trey Hendricks and sophomore Lance Salsgiver—the team’s best two pro prospects according to Baseball America—both pitch and hit. Starring on the mound and at the plate, they take on both roles like few in recent Harvard history have...
This year, they’ll become the first pair of Harvard teammates in years to combine regular mound time with every-day at-bats. Hendricks, the accomplished senior from Texas, completes the infield at first base when he’s not pitching. Salsgiver, the flashy youngster from Flint, completes the outfield in right...
Salsgiver and Hendricks both came to Harvard knowing they would get plenty of time on the mound. For Hendricks, who led Houston-area pitchers in strikeouts and compiled a 10-2 record his senior year at Spring, that was a given...
...committing to Harvard, he had the best offensive spring of his high school career, attracting the attention of schools such as nearby Rice, the 2003 NCAA National Champs. But he chose Walsh and the Crimson with the understanding that he would play his freshman year—on the mound and in the field...
...than 30. Indeed, the Babe connected more times that year than 11 of the 15 other teams. (And what illegal substance was he on? Prohibition-era booze.) Bonds could be playing at that level. When he walks to the plate, he's not really facing the pitcher on the mound; he's facing down the legends of the game. That quest is motivation enough for him to pamper and punish his body legally. Or perhaps illegally...