Word: ramoses
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Rey F. Ramos '98 from the Bronx, N.Y., attended James Monroe High School, labeled the city's worst high school by former New York City Schools chancellor Ramon C. Cortines.
Only two Monroe graduates had ever gone on to Harvard before, in 1952 and 1956, "back when the Bronx was all white," Ramos says. Today, the school's population is predominantly Puerto Rican, Dominican and African-American.
Ramos characterizes his high school's guidance and college counseling resources as woefully inadequate. Only when he began to look at colleges and read up on the requirements did he hear about Achievement tests (now the SAT-II), he says.
"'What the hell are these?'" he recalls thinking. "I just accepted that I would have to work a little bit harder to try to make up for the advantages [others] already had," Ramos says. "You're limited by what you had access to beforehand."
Although Cuban pelota remains a mystery to the average fan, baseball people know just how good it is. In his spring-training office in Scottsdale, Arizona, last week, Giants manager Dusty Baker rattled off some names--"Tony Perez, Tito Fuentes, Tony Taylor, Camilo Pascual, Tony Gonzalez, Pedro Ramos, Tony Oliva...