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...lettered in varsity football for three years and played one year of JV baseball while at Harvard—the third youngest general manager hired in big league history. Fellow Ivy Leaguer and Brookline native Theo Epstein was 28 when he was hired by the Boston Red Sox before the beginning of last season and Randy Smith was 29 in 1993 when he was signed by the San Diego Padres...
DePodesta has spent the past five years as the assistant to the Oakland Athletics’ GM Billy Bean, and was expected to take over for Bean in November 2002 when it seemed that Bean was going to become the new GM position for the Red Sox, but Bean changed his mind and stayed in Oakland...
...Which brings me to the raison d?etre for this letter from Orlando. The last time I did one of these minor-key adventure series in this electronic space was last fall, when I embarked upon a mission to witness the epic Sox-Yanks playoff series from the stands, and write about the wild ride for Time.com. Some readers got a kick out of the ferociously biased account; some felt I was just another lame, pathetic loser. In any event, when I saw the kid in the Brady shirt and was reminded of our recent New England triumph...
...Tomorrow - well, today, as the clock just struck midnight in this sleeping house - back to the Magic Kingdom. I?ll let you know how it ends, but it has begun beautifully. As I did with the Sox but didn?t with the Pats, I would have lost some money betting on this...
...Eckersley did not believe he had done enough for me. He managed to get every single member of the 1989 Oakland A’s to sign a baseball for me, and he asked his friend Rich Gedman to solicit the same signatures from his teammates on the Red Sox. The next time the A’s were in town, Dennis got tickets for Bill and me right behind the bullpen and talked to me both before and after the game. Over the next couple of years, every time Dennis was in town he would...