Word: wheelerism
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It’s May 1. After losing his job as the team’s consistent DH—he hasn’t started in 10 games over two weeks after a fast start early in the season—Wheeler finds himself starting in the seven-hole against Cape Cod League MVP Josh Faiola, a highly-touted fireballer from Dartmouth, in the Ivy season’s penultimate weekend...
Before his first at-bat, Wheeler ambles to the plate. Dartmouth’s traveling heckling crew, which made the trip from Hanover this morning, doesn’t recognize the 230-pound Harvard senior and takes a few half-hearted digs at his size...
...Wheeler doesn’t quite look the ballplayer; the guy teammates call “Doggie” is large—but not overweight—and yet not in the imposing way that makes 210-pound teammate Josh Klimkiewicz such an intimidating presence when he steps to the plate...
...next two weeks, Wheeler will only make a few pinch-hitting appearances. In his last at-bat at Harvard’s O’Donnell Field on May 29, Wheeler strikes...
...would’ve felt better to go out a little better,” says Wheeler, whose disposition is content and whom Harvard coach Joe Walsh has called “the ultimate team player...