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...Harvard has had its ups and downs. She's been as active as any member of her class. Recruited for track and field (she specialized in the high jump), Thomas despised it and instead rowed for awhile with Radcliffe crew. An ankle injury led her to the water polo team instead, where she played all four years. She's also been a valuable member of the Radcliffe rugby team...
Never mind that most Americans aren't familiar with this fast-paced game; the U.S. men's and women's handball teams got an All-American introduction at Planet Hollywood in Atlanta. "It's water polo without the water, or soccer but you use your hands," says handballer Thomas Fitzgerald. While the men's Olympic team is still far behind powerhouses France and Sweden, the women's, led by twins Tami and Toni Jameson, has a shot at the first U.S. medal in the sport...
Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds are now housing projects. The Deliverance Evangelistic Church sits on the site of what was once Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium. The Herbert Hoover Boys Club is where Sportsman's Park used to be in St. Louis, Missouri. Crosley Field was swallowed up by I-75 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The spot on which Bill Mazeroski stood in 1960 when he hit his dramatic World Series home run in Forbes Field is actually in a ladies' room on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. They paved paradise, the old Comiskey Park in Chicago...
Baseball historians have noted that the very same wrecking ball leveled both Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds. In a figurative sense, that same destructive weight is swinging anew. How do you stop it? How do you tell people they won't know what they've got till it's gone...
...Eastern Championships last weekend in Princeton, NJ, the Harvard women's water polo team got a rude awakening...