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...Harvard seniors Mike Morgalis and Trey Hendricks. Morgalis, the senior hurler from Cincinnati, and Hendricks, the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, spent the week toiling towards a much nobler goal—working injured Boston Red Sox superstar Nomar Garciaparra’s batting eye back to full strength...
Hendricks heard about the job from Red Sox scout Ray Fagnant, who needed a college pitcher—with no ties to the organization—to “throw Nomar some strikes,” according to Hendricks. It is standard procedure for Major Leaguers rehabbing injuries to face live pitching on the road to recovery...
Morgalis admitted he was impressed with the shortstop’s performance. “[Nomar] looks ready to me,” he said. “He hadn’t done this in so long, in about three months. And I don’t think in four days he swung through one ball...
...returned from Iraq last September, Moulton said, he did not want to face the “predictable, repeated and unanswerable” questions from friends about Iraq. “I wanted a burger, a beer and a girlfriend, and was far more interested in hearing why Nomar was in a slump, how Martha had gone from the kitchen to the dog house, and whether or not Larry Summers was still president of Harvard...
...most interesting guy to come off the DL will be Nomar. Could Reese actually be the better option at shortstop? It seems silly—but, in worst case, Boston has shown that winning is possible without Garciaparra. No one wants a guy who gets hurt every year, and even though Nomar is the heart and soul of the Red Sox, if Boston can win without him, he won’t be back next year...