Word: capes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Farkes had played through pain for two full seasons, and he couldn’t say no to the Cape. So standing deep in the infield grass, he’d pray the guy from Florida State or Texas digging into the dirt of that batter’s box didn’t hit a ball to his backhand, because the long throw from the hole just hurt too much...
...June] they said we can fix this now and you can miss the Cape season, or you can go out and play and we can fix it later,” Farkes says. “At that point, I had just been drafted, and was still thinking about that, and I thought I could keep playing. But the pain got to that point where I wasn’t sure...
...planned to prove them all wrong in the Cape, the place small school guys make a name for themselves—like former Crimson ace Ben Crockett ’02, who went from a solid Ivy pitcher to a potential first-round pick with a single stellar summer...
...even though Farkes claims his shoulder didn’t affect his swing, he slumped badly to open the season, not uncommon for good college hitters in the pitcher-dominated Cape...
Playing on the Cape means baseball is your job, a 12-week whirlwind tour of the minor leagues, or at least the closest simulation in amateur baseball. Every morning you go to the field at 9 a.m. to lift. You return at 4 p.m. for stretching, hitting and fielding before a 7 p.m. game. That’s five hours a day before the game even starts, and a far cry from the life of a Harvard student-athlete...