Word: shepherded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever want to own your own baseball team? Last spring two Harvard sophomores decided they did, so David Campbell and Bruce Shepherd attempted to form a public syndicate to buy the Red Sox. "Own a piece of the Sox," read an ad in the Boston Globe one weekend, and the next, Campbell and Shepherd had their pictures plastered across the sports pages of America, courtesy of the Associated Press, one of whose editors had seen the advertisement...
When reality and legal hassles set in, the proposed public syndicate had to be dissolved, but only after Campbell and Shepherd learned a few things not covered in Ec. 10. "We actually are pretty serious," economics major Shepherd said at the time. And why not? The Red Sox still remain unsold today...
When the relatively unknown southpaw took the mound against powerful Navy in April 1962, Coach Norm Shepherd was not overly-optimistic about Del Rossi's ability to master the defending Eastern Intercollegiate champions...
This type of display prompted Shepherd to say, "Del Rossi was a brilliant sort of pitcher. You won't find any college pitcher who knew how to put into application the tools of pitching better than Del Rossi. He was not just a thrower out on the mound. He was an artist...
...beat rolled on. By the end of his sophomore year, Del Rossi had established himself as the dominant pitcher in the East with a 10-1 record and a 1.40 Earned Run Average. He helped turn what Shepherd had termed another "break-even season" into an outstanding 19-4 mark. The team won 12 straight along the way and Shepherd received Coach of The Year honors...