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...don’t see many kids at Harvard get off the plane in a T-shirt with the ‘Runs Like A Deere’ slogan,” Joe Walsh says of freshman Lance Salsgiver. Salsgiver’s showing up in a lawn mower shirt speaks to his general ebullience, but only begins to hint at his game...
...stay healthy this year, he’s got a good chance of breaking some appearance records here at Harvard,” says veteran Harvard baseball coach Joe Walsh of his dynamic closer. “He always wants the ball, and I want to give...
Unwilling to watch another baseball season go by, Wahlberg decided to approach Walsh. Though the flame-throwing righty was not officially recruited by the Harvard baseball program out of high school, Walsh maintains that he was aware of him, and had hoped that he would attempt the switch. Offered a spot on the Crimson nine if he wanted it, Wahlberg quickly made the decision to play baseball—and only baseball...
...choice was one that might have seemed unnecessary to Harvard athletes of decades past, as both Walsh and Wahlberg will testify. While Crimson history is loaded with quarterback/pitchers—most notably Milt Holt ’75, who garnered All-Ivy honors in both sports—the days in which an Ivy athlete can realistically star in two major sports have for the most part passed...
...It’s a tough thing here, combining [baseball and football] with the academics,” Walsh says. “I think the commitment that both sports have now in the weight room has changed dramatically since those days—and also there wasn’t spring football. There was always fall baseball but there was never spring football...