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Update: Hale Selected 87th in MLB Draft
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
We’re going pro! Princeton pitcher David Hale was taken by the Atlanta Braves in the third round of the MLB amateur draft. As noted by an Ivy League Sports article, the pick is an especially exciting homecoming of sorts for Georgia native Hale. Of course, he’ll have to make it to the majors, and not
- Published in Goings On
The Strange Connection Between ORFE and 95 MPH Fastballs
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
Princeton grad Ross Ohlendorf makes us feel bad about ourselves. A recent ESPN profile by Tim Kurkjian described Ohlendorf’s superhuman ability to combine a 95 mile per hour sinking fastball with an Operations Research and Financial Engineering degree that produced, in Kurkjian’s words, “a 126-page thesis […] brilliantly written and so complex, only a mathematician
- Published in Alumni, Musings, Princeton in the News