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...over half a century, but Hergé maintained that his boy wonder was always just shy of his 18th birthday. Ostensibly a reporter - although he is seen filing a story in only one frame in the entire 24-book oeuvre - Tintin took on various roles as detective, Boy Scout and secret agent. As time went by, he accumulated friends: along with his astute and faithful dog, Snowy, his retinue included cantankerous sailor Captain Haddock; eccentric egghead Professor Calculus; and the doltish, bowler-hatted, doppelgänger detectives, Thomson and Thompson. And his adventures took on more elaborate themes, from drug...
When Douglas was in high school, Harvard coach Joe Walsh had no intentions of making a hard recruiting push for the South River, N.J. native. But Mike Garlatti, an old acquaintance of Walsh’s and a scout for the Colorado Rockies, had coached Douglas on a fall-season team for high schoolers looking to play at the college level and recommended him to the Crimson skipper...
...Scout Day for head coach Joe Walsh’s hopeful squad, a day on which talent representatives from major league clubs arrive with pens and pads and eyes carefully trained to pick out the best the amateur baseball ranks have to offer. It was a time for Crimson prospects to look their best, but for them and their new student manager, freshman West Resendes, it was also the start of a season, a connection, a bond...
...That first meeting led to Scout Day, and fall led to winter and the start of Resendes’ responsibilities with the team. At practice, he filled a number of roles: feeding pitching machines, setting up bases and other equipment for drills, helping players on the batting tees—as captain Harry Douglas puts it, “all the little things that need to get done...
...That closeness indicates the distance he and his teammates have traveled since their first meeting on Scout Day. Plenty of these metaphorical miles were logged during the team’s spring break trip to Louisiana, where, sandwiched in between athletes on van rides to and from games and practices, Resendes began to feel like part of a team...