Word: shortstops
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DePodesta is the assistant general manager of the Oakland Athletics and one of several recent Harvard graduates who have found front-office careers in Major League Baseball. His new Baseball Operations Assistant David Forst graduated from Harvard in 1998 after a storied Crimson career at shortstop. Along with Michael Hill '94, director of player personnel with the Colorado Rockies, DePodesta and Forst have established themselves in an industry that is very difficult to break into, especially at a young...
...good a player as we've ever had here," Walsh recalls. "As shortstop and captain, he had a way of actually making his teammates better. That's a very hard thing to do in our sport; it's easier to think about something like that happening in basketball or hockey. But if you were on Dave's side, you knew that he expected a certain amount of you, that he wouldn't accept anything less...
Forst was a sure thing at shortstop and grew to be just as automatic at the plate, batting .407 and setting a team record with 67 hits in his senior year. He was an All-Ivy selection in his senior year, and was voted a third-team All-American by the College Baseball Writers Association of America...
Harvard's best scoring chance after the second inning came in the bottom of the sixth when sophomore shortstop Mark Mager reached on a single up the middle and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by junior center fielder Scott Carmack...
...first of those two runs came in the top of the second. Brown shortstop Dan Kantrovitz started the inning with a double, moved to third base on a passed ball, and then scored on a groundout by first baseman Shaun Gallagher...