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...Baseball??s timelessness isn’t something I talk about a lot, unless I’m talking "Field of Dreams," my favorite movie, which could cook up enough nostalgia to feed a small country for days. If you want to see a grown man cry, all you need is the aforementioned title and 107 minutes of your time—23, if you start at James Earl Jones’ spine-tingling speech...
...Haviland said. “I love being out there in game action.”Harvard will hit the stretch run of its Ivy League schedule with a pair of home doubleheaders against Brown this weekend.And then on Tuesday, the Crimson will play at Fenway Park, one of baseball??s storied venues, for a chance to defend its city-wide bragging rights.The Crimson will meet Boston College, which beat UMass 11-3 in last night’s Fraser Field nightcap.“It’s going to be unbelievable under the lights out there...
Indeed, Harvard’s intellectual climate helped bring about Okrent’s epiphany. According to Wall Street Journal reporter Sam Walker’s recent book “Fantasyland,” an authoritative dissection of what he appropriately calls “baseball??s lunatic fringe,” the first form of Rotisserie baseball began at Harvard way back in 1960. Bill Gamson, a research associate in social psychology at the Harvard School of Public Health, invented the “Baseball Seminar,” a precursor to today?...
...monster early leads in both games against the toothless Lions, who played all afternoon like they had their cups on backwards. Still, I managed to enjoy myself. How? I’m not so sure. But something in two different sequences during game one reminded me of baseball??s ineffable appeal.* * *The first play was no joking matter. A kid got hurt. Columbia starting second baseman Kyle Roberts injured his knee when, on a ground ball to shortstop with runners on first and second and nobody out in the second inning, Matt Kramer slid hard into the base...
...World Baseball Classic—on March 13, 2006, hidden in a thicket of good feelings and mostly good baseball??Fidel Castro’s Cuba reared its ugly head...