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...John A. Wolff ’06-’07 loves baseball. It is his inheritance and, he hopes, his future. It is also his muse...
...book traces John’s experiences in the minors in the spring and summer of 2006 through the daily e-mails he sent home to his family. In between the entries are italicized reactions from the elder Wolff, originally a member of the Class of 1973 who also played baseball at Harvard and in the minor leagues. In the 1970s, he published a similarly themed work, “What’s a Nice Harvard Boy Like You Doing in the Bushes...
...group of committed dads assembled one night in a New Jersey diner, the answer is obvious. Sort of. Paul Haley, 38, a father of two, says women look at him when he walks down the street with his kids. "I think it's admiration," he says. Adam Wolff, also 38--with two kids and one on the way--ponders what it means to be a man. "Is my man-ness about being the breadwinner or being a good father to my kids or something else?" Michael Gerber, 36, father of a 7-month-old, asks, "Do you mean...
Wilson continues in a line of recent Harvard non-seniors confronted with the option of departing school early to test their fortunes in the bushes. John Wolff and Frank Herrmann, a late-round pick and a free-agent pickup, respectively, both left Cambridge after their junior campaigns in 2005. Zak Farkes elected to return to campus in 2004 to improve his standing after being taken by his hometown Boston Red Sox in the 39th round following a 14-homer sophomore season. But Farkes was not picked again the next summer and inked a free-agent deal with...
...personal.The film stems from a project, created by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2004, which called for writings about the war experience in Iraq and Afghanistan from soldiers and their families. The effort also held writing workshops in military camps led by such distinguished authors as Tobias Wolff and Bobbie Ann Mason. Over 100 pages were sent in to the project, from which a book and the documentary were created.And behind the scenes, a contingent of Harvard grads have been bringing these stories to the limelight.IN THE KNOW“There’s something about the immediacy...