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...This season, the Crimson hit just .258 as a team, the lowest mark in the Ivy League. Only one of the regular Harvard starters, sophomore shortstop Mark Mager, batted above...
...WOODS, golf superstar, Nike spokesman--and Screen Actors Guild member--refused to cross the picket line to shoot a Nike commercial at the Isleworth Country Club in Orlando, Fla., his home course. Nike hopes to reschedule; Woods says he won't budge. Two days later, Boston Red Sox star shortstop Nomar Garciaparra canceled a Dunkin' Donuts shoot at Fenway, his home ballpark. And director John Waters would not cross the line in Brooklyn to appear in a commercial for Internet site More.com Now maybe they're all sharing a beer with the guys from the "Whassup...
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...