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Assistant coach Gary Donovan, who was with Walsh for seven years at Suffolk and followed him to Harvard, recollects how they used to scrounge for available fields...
...trespassing laws be damned when there’s baseball to practice. For Walsh, no measure was too extreme when it came to getting his team playing time, even for the low-on-the-radar Division III Rams. After 14 years as head coach at Suffolk, Walsh was used to scrambling for practice space in any way he could. In an effort to play the maximum number of games possible, he once split his squad so that they could play two opponents on separate fields simultaneously. It was challenging, but exhilarating. It made their wins all the more impressive...
...that changed for Walsh when Harvard grad Joe O’Donnell made a hefty donation to the baseball program, providing for the first time the monetary opportunity for a full-time coach. When then-athletic director Bill Cleary called up Walsh to schedule an interview, the Suffolk coach was both startled and captivated...
...always had wanted to be a Division I coach and had been labeled a D-III guy,” Walsh says...
...night before his interview, Walsh made a customary illicit visit to the Harvard baseball field—only this time without his players. As he trespassed for potentially the last time on the silent shadowy grounds, the vision of the future tantalized...