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...sure, he has had moments where he shone far more brightly than most ever have. Rookie of the Year in 1982. MVP and World Series Champion in 1983. And when criticism mounted after his numbers began to decline in the eighties, he won another...
...star, however--junior outside hitter Linda Jellison--shone for the Crimson, however. The southpaw led the Crimson with nine kills and a .409 hitting percentage and served up three aces...
More numerous are the power men who shone in unjoyful ages and in the half-light of provincial parks. Hack Wilson hit 58, but in 1930 Chicago wasn't ready to party. Ralph Kiner flattened balls, but did so in Pittsburgh, which is the Big City only if you're in Cincinnati...where Frank Robinson was huge, before he went to (equally frowzy) Baltimore. You get the idea: it's an uncommon man at an odd moment who can play in the league we're speaking...
...thinking about all this as I walked through the Yard after my last exam. The sun shone brightly on the trees and the carefully planted flowers were in full bloom. Students were throwing frisbees, and a tour group was staring attentively at the Crimson Key guide as he stood on the steps of Widener explaining its history. On such days, Harvard seems to me to be one of the most beautiful places in the world--an idyllic institution serving some of the finest minds in the country...
Even here in Beantown, in an Adams house common room straining to hear John Sterling and Michael Kay's call over an Internet feed, temporarily abandoning Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman for the exploits of another New York school, Well's quest for baseball legend shone through...