Word: palmer-dixon
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Harvard’s Palmer-Dixon Tennis Courts are housed in a shapeless edifice that squats like a military barracks between Dillon Fieldhouse and Jordan Field. One could imagine the building playing home to a stable of dusty, spider-webbed tractors. Or a collection of iron pipes. The expanse is imposing, stale, and very wide. So wide that it can fit a baseball team—32 players, three coaches, bats, balls, and a batting cage. Barely...
...Palmer-Dixon is terrible,” pitcher Frank J. Herrmann ’06 groans...
...takes a rare talent to make indoor baseball practice work inside a place like Palmer-Dixon. It takes a rarer talent to convert that practice into wins—13 in the Ivies last year, to be exact. Walsh, Harvard’s head coach, has it in spades. He’s a salty old cod, a jovial man bent on making games worth playing: he hasn’t had a losing Ivy season in ten years...
...Walsh, it’s not only about being a big kid—which, of course, is the reliable Palmer-Dixon antidote, and which, of course, he is—but also about winning games. In nine seasons, Walsh-coached Harvard teams have won four Ivy League titles. When Walsh came to Harvard, the team had endured a decade of mediocre performances, but the coach quickly returned the Crimson to its glory days...
...think a lot of kids have that dream,” Walsh says of his former star, with whom he still keeps close contact. “And it’s a great dream to have.” And a possible dream, even within the dreariness of Palmer-Dixon...