Word: parke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been able to do my job. My job is to coach Harvard baseball and do it in the best way I know how. As long as I am doing what I feel in my heart is right I can live with anything that is said or written about me," Park said...
...Park did deal with it, not with pen or mouth but with performance, and his silent, business-like approach to off-season criticism was rousingly successful. Park truly "did his job" as he had always done it at Harvard; emphasizing speed, pitching and defense, and seasoning it with his natural enthusiasm. In his wake he left many embarassed critics as Harvard baseball returned to its accustomed spot in the limelight from a one-year sabbatical. As Park himself summed up the past spring: "In just one year we came right back to where we were in 1975. It's gonna...
...that it wasn't this year. The feeling that last season was indeed water under the bullpen became apparent early, as Park took an astonishingly young ballclub down to Sanford, Florida to train in early April. Ten of Harvard's traveling ballplayers were freshmen, and the talented youths had forced Park to cut loose several members of the 1976 squad and carry only eight lettermen down to the sunshine...
Florida was "a time of development," according to Park, and the limited competition did not serve to test his babes. They romped in eight straight games down South, but moreover showed an intensity to perfect fundamentals and an attitude that was genuinely optimistic, a refreshing change from the cocky 1976 squad which had won 11 of 14 contests while in Florida. "I knew right after the Southern trip that these were the right kids," Park said...
...Greater Boston League opener on April 11 at Boston College came next, Park started six freshmen among them pitcher Ron Stewart, and bombarded the Chestnut Hillers, 12-2 for his team's ninth straight win. Stewart fanned 11 in the encounter as the young Harvard team proved itself very disrespectful to its elders...