Old School Baseball

Source: www.dartblog.com --- Sunday, April 30, 2017
What's a spring day without a ballgame, especially when played before a good crowd in the friendly Hanover park donated by Mike Biondi '79 (a wonderful class)?: The boys split a doubleheader with Harvard yesterday: they won the first game 2-1; and they lost the second one 7-6, after holding a 6-1 lead. There goes the season. After the game, as is Coach Whalen's wont, the player put the mound to bed and swept out the dugouts. No spoiled snowflakes these guys: I wrote to Coach Whalen (an adopted member of the Class of, um, '79) to ask about the players' non-playing responsibilities (no jokes about cleanup hitters, please). He replied right away: They take care of the stands and the trash and do a good job. I want our players to have some "skin in the game" and take pride in Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park, and appreciate how lucky they are to have this facility. It's not a privilege to play for me, but it is a privilege to go to Dartmouth College. We have always taken care of the field after games. In fact, it's the FIRST thing we do the first day of fall Baseball is spend a few hours preparing the dugouts, closets, weed the bushes around the outfield fence, take care of the mounds, etc. Coach Whalen is too polite to allude to the outrageous cost of having the staff of the College's Facilities Operations & Management department do this kind of maintenance. As teams, academic departments and student organizations can attest, FO&M's ...

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