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...Saturday afternoon, November 23, 1968, when Harvard tied Yale, 29-29, in THE GAME of all THE GAMES, and when sophomore receiver Pete Varney was mobbed in the endzone by incredulous Harvard loyalists for catching the winning conversion pass with no time left on the clock...
Last week in Sarasota, Fla., that same Pete Varney sat on the Chicago White Sox bullpen bench, a major league baseball player and a considerable distance from Adams House, where he lived for three years, and Soldiers Field, where he spent a good deal of his undergraduate career...
...this particular day, Varney's employers, the Chicago White Sox, were working against the Pittsburgh Pirates in a rare Wednesday afternoon doubleheader. But Varney's day wouldn't begin until the start of the second game, and when you're a professional baseball player and you're not working, you're sitting...
...Varney's case, though, he's usually sitting or crouching even when he is working, because Pete Varney is a catcher, which is not exactly what you expect of a Harvard history major...
...business school or something," he says. Brayton went to exclusive Milton Academy; his father is head of a large clothing company in Pennsylvania. This isn't held against him in baseball, where there are "just a bunch of guys, like at Harvard or anywhere else. Hell, look at Varney." And indeed, White Sox catcher Pete Varney '71 comes from Quincy, Massachusetts--his background has none of the trappings of the Harvard stereotype, unless it is the very real stereotype of the local kid plucked up by Harvard athletics. With an occasional exception. Brayton says, ball players don't know...