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...Walsh??s perfect pinch-hit performance
Mazzoleni called it Walsh??s “best game.” He was very capable with the puck, nearly scoring on a first-period rush down the right side, and supplied stingy play in his own zone, most notably a glass-rattling check on Robert Burns late in the second stanza...
...covered Walsh??s team for four years because I believed someday, against all odds, Walsh??s faith would be rewarded and I didn’t want to miss it. I drove all over New England to watch his throwback brand of hardball because I wanted to be a part of something that special, if only from the press...
...hilarious (he once complained about Harvard parents “clawing at you, trying to shove chocolate chip cookies down your face” between games in Ivy League doubleheaders), the profound (an emotional reflection on outfielder Joe Llanes’ battle with testicular cancer) and the sublimely hackneyed (Walsh??s references to the “baseball gods” were heartfelt enough to defy cliché). Joe Walsh was a baseball man of almost cinematic caliber who captured our imaginations immediately, a walking embodiment of that mystical fabric that connects the games of baseball and life...
...whether the rain would hold up long enough to squeeze the Ivy League Championship game in—wound up being as unambiguous as Thomas Pauly versus Frank Herrmann with two on and two out in the ninth. For the seldom-used Herrmann, a freshman and Harvard Coach Joe Walsh??s last pinch-hitting option on a thinning bench, and Pauly, arguably the conference’s most dominant pitcher, the moment was a collision of implausibility and perfect clarity...