MLB and the Ivy League

Posted by Bill on May 29th 2005

I was watching the Texas Rangers play the Chicago White Sox this week, and I noticed a large percentage of Ivy League graduates playing for the Rangers. Specifically, Chris Young (who played Princeton Basketball) who was pitching that night and Mark Derosa (who was Penn’s Quarterback when I was in school). Penn is also represented by Doug Glanville (Engineer) who was last playing with the Phillies. Dartmouth also has two current players, Brad Ausmus (Houston Astros) and Mike Remlinger (Chicago Cubs).

Suprisingly, only 42 MLB Players have college degrees. That is 5% of all players. Just for comparison, the NFL players union says that about 50% of active NFL players have college degrees.

Taking those two bits of information together and you see how well represented the Ivy League is in professional baseball. My total Wild-Ass-Guess at why this is: If you are going to shell out the money to play baseball at an Ivy, you mine as well get the most from your money and get the degree rather than waste it.

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Nothing is ever as simple as it seems

Posted by Bill on May 29th 2005

Margaret and I were working on cleaning up our 4th floor a bit this weekend, when we were struck by how poor the shelving design was above our washer and drier (which live in a closet up there). So we thought we would (as we have with just about every other closet in our house), put up elfa shelving. Should be an easy enough job, maybe 3 hours of work including taking down the existing shelves.

But as long as we had the old shelves down, it would be a great time to put up a fresh coat of paint in there. So Margaret picked out a color at the Home Depot and we were good to go.

But if we are going to paint, we should probably move the washer and the drier out of the way so we can paint behind them (it will make things so much easier).

Once we moved the washer and drier out of the way, we saw how nasty it was behind there (Drier lint everywhere!), so we had to spend some time cleaning up that area as well.

It is amazing how a simple project like putting up new shelves can snowball into something bigger…

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