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...American Civilization graduate students mixed their love for two of Boston’s most important institutions: Harvard and the Red Sox. On the first day of the American League Championship Series, the graduates carried a sign with photos of Harvard’s new president and the Sox??€™s beleaguered right-fielder J.D. Drew...
Remember your parents’ baseball? Kids could once spend an afternoon at the ballpark on a whim and some pocket change. Now, they almost have to choose between paying for a ticket and paying for college. Money in the game was running wild before, but the Red Sox??€™s splash has set an appalling new precedent that all fans will come to rue. Well done, baseball; you are managing to take the nation out of the national pastime...
...reason I bring this up is the growing trend of Ivy League graduates filling front-office positions. Last year, newly named Tampa Bay Devil Rays team president Matthew Silverman ’98 joined the Rangers’ Jon Daniels (Cornell), the Red Sox??€™ Theo Epstein (Yale), and former Dodgers’ GM Paul DePodesta (Harvard) as the fifth former Ivy League graduate to run a major league team. Even the top dog of my team, Mark Shapiro, is a former Princeton Tiger...
...member of the Boston Red Sox??€™ Class A affiliate, the Lowell (Mass.) Spinners, Farkes found something different altogether...
Neither captain catcher Schuyler Mann nor junior infielder Zak Farkes—who was selected last year in the 39th round by the Boston Red Sox??€”was selected by a team...