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Stenhouse, who tied the record in 1978 and is also the school record-holder in single-season batting average (.475), was a 1979 Oakland A’s first-round draft pick—how many of those have come from Harvard?—and made his MLB debut with the Montreal Expos in 1982. He played three seasons with the Expos and one with the Twins before retiring in 1986 with the Red Sox. Yes, those...
Each played at the elite level of both high school baseball and hockey, and while Glavine chose to enter the minor leagues after being drafted by both the NHL and MLB out of high school, Byrne is taking a different route. He’s playing both at Harvard...
After all, the Crimson was facing UCLA, a team which was the No. 4 seed in the tournament and the top seed in the region, featured alumni like Jackie Robinson and was led at the time by Troy Glaus, now a three-time MLB All-Star. Few had heard about Harvard’s shortstop—a junior named David Forst...
Well, if pro scouts didn’t know who Forst was then, they certainly know who he is now. The former Crimson slugger began the 2004 MLB season in the same position that another Harvard graduate—Paul DePodesta ’95—recently vacated, as the Assistant General Manager for the Oakland Athletics. Forst took over the role for DePodesta when he was hired by the Los Angeles Dodgers as the team’s new GM earlier in the season...
Forst has certainly entered into an interesting area in his new role with the Athletics. Though the club does not have one of the larger payrolls among the MLB clubs, it has become one of the better known organizations in the league due in part to its recent success—going to the playoffs four years in a row—and Michael Lewis’ best-selling work, Moneyball...