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“I went to BB&N for academics, primarily,” Klimkiewicz says. “I wanted to go to Harvard and I knew about BB&N’s baseball program, so it seemed like a good match.” Klimkiewicz immediately became the...
However, according to Matt T. Wiger—an HBS student who attended West Point with Adamouski—a knee injury Adamouski sustained during his senior year of high school threatened his athletic prospects during his first year at the Academy.
This predicament left the savvy coach no choice but to pilfer Harvard’s playing fields just to give his pitchers a mound to throw off. Undeterred by the lack of their own facilties, Walsh and his players would hop the fence and borrow the Crimson’s...
All 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...
Though in many respects the Crimson is still miles behind many opposing teams in terms of funding, facilities, and publicity, Walsh truly believes that the backing of the athletic department to put competitive teams on the schedule makes all the difference in the world. For example, next season the Crimson...