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Whatever they were, they evanesced as Bell wound up from the stretch, and broke off a hanging breaking ball. Six thousand surrogate fans who had adopted Harvard in the absence of hometown LSU gasped in unison, and Ralph pounced, drilling his team-record 10th home run of the season over the right-centerfield wall while the stadium erupted into its Cajun chant of "Geaux Harvard Geaux...
...Ralph, Vankoski, captain David Forst, leftfielder Aaron Kessler, relievers Mike Marcucci and John Wells. When these six joined the team in the spring of 1995, they inherited a program that, under part-time Coach Leigh Hogan, struggled through a 10-25 season and looked like the furthest thing imaginable from an NCAA tournament-caliber club...
Walsh's rapid turnaround of the club is a well-documented story, but the role his seniors have played somewhat less so. Of the six, Forst and Marcucci enjoyed career years, while Ralph, Kessler and Vankoski were all honored with All-Ivy distinction...
...then-second place Yale--provided the barometer for the Crimson's progress. Although the Bulldogs got complete games from three starters, including Ivy Pitcher of the Year Eric Gutshall, Harvard worked out a split on the strength of a ninth-inning rally in Game Four keyed by Forst, Ralph and junior third baseman Hal Carey...
...what if we later in life find that our actions seem foolish to more mature eyes? In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, "Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow thinks in hard words again, thought it contradict every thing you said today." After all, what time is there for youth and idealism, if it be not youth...