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Byrne has played a major role in his first season on the Crimson baseball team (18-15-1, 11-5 Ivy), filling in seamlessly at second base and providing a spark for Harvard in the second half of the season. And if that weren’t enough, Byrne had already walked on to the men’s hockey team as a forward this winter. Although he never dressed during Harvard’s 2003-2004 ECAC Championship season, he made his presence felt during practices and in the locker room...
After some unfortunate injuries to the Crimson’s infield—sophomore third baseman Josh Klimkiewicz was out for a month (hamstring) and sophomore shortstop Morgan Brown is still sidelined (quadricep)—Byrne stepped in at second base and has played excellent defense in addition to providing timely hitting. In 28 games as a freshman, Byrne has started 17, hitting for a .289 average and mounting a .970 fielding percentage...
...played shortstop in high school, but I had plenty of second base experience in AAU and legion ball,” Byrne said. “The adjustment hasn’t been that bad, and I’m pretty comfortable at second base. It’s actually a little easier than shortstop except the turn for double plays...
With winds gusting in from right field at 30 miles per hour on Saturday, junior catcher Schuyler Mann had hit everything Brown’s pitchers threw at him, grounding base hits through all of the holes in the infield and knocking a few more down the lines...
...infused it with the hard-edged, competitive ethos of capitalism. He has played the popular culture with unerring skill ever since. He took Republican politics, married it to the glamour of the Kennedys and then exported that hybrid to California. This year he managed to rally the Republican base with an order to stop gay marriages in San Francisco while deftly saying on The Tonight Show that he had no problem with gays marrying. Think of any other Republican who could do these things, and you begin to understand the depth of Arnold's talent. He has become a crucial...