2003 Alumni Game


Each year, alums of the Caltech baseball team are invited back to play the varsity. This was my first time participating in the game -- I went 1 for 3 with an RBI.
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Me sitting on the visitor's bench before the game.
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Our opponents.
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Me playing second base.
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My first at-bat: a sharp fly out to left field.
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The view from the stands. The spectator in front row, all the way to the left, in the blue shirt, is Coop's woman.
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Me throwing across the diamond from 3rd base during warmups.
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Me fielding a grounder from 3rd during warmups.
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I guess that I never quite realized how dorky I looked in a baseball uniform before.
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Me calling for Greg Fricke at shortstop to not relay the trhow from the outfield.
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Varsity at bat, trying to drive home the run from 3rd.
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Practice swings.
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My second at-bat -- took a fastball outside corner at the knees for strike one, took a ball, then swung at a fastball low and outside. On the lookout for a curve ball, I got one about belt high on the outside corner, but got under it and flew out to left.
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This looks like me swinging and missing at the low-outside job, but it could be the flyout pitch.
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At 3rd base.
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ready for a ground ball.
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My last at bat -- runners with first and third, one out, and I get the hit-and-run sign on the first pitch!
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Fastball, ourside corner and maybe a little low -- looper into short left field, double scoring one and moving the other guy to third.
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Final score 8 - 2 alums.


Here's the pathetic Jason Barnes Fleming House Legacy Tour:
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The parking spots.
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Firestone stairs 'F' in concrete.
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The scoreboard.
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Days 'till graduation board.
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The 5/6 wall (or lack thereof).
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Hoth shield generator on Firestone, from my stack. Still there after 6 years!!!
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Okay, these are just random pictures -- Gwen took one of me checking my email.
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The cannon.
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It was a gorgeous day -- no smog.