Hey, Baseball

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Former Dartmouth offensive lineman Mike McCune '92, sports director and anchor of WCAX-TV in Burlington, Vt., introduces a video segment on the Dartmouth baseball team, which boasts both the longest winning streak in the country (11 games) and the longest home win streak in the country (24 games) heading into this weekend's Ivy League Championship Series at Princeton. To learn more about McCune, who unabashedly confesses at the end of the segment that he'll be rooting for Dartmouth, find his bio here. McCune was an honorable-mention All-Ivy pick as a senior. (And Mike, you still owe me ;-)

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Remember big Lucius Alexander '07, Dartmouth's 6-foot-8, 340-pound offensive tackle? His sister Christina is a talented thrower on the Dartmouth women's track team and will be competing this weekend in the Heps at Yale. Find her bio here and a dated Ivy League video interview with her here.

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Arthur Hoover '62, who lettered as a senior at Dartmouth as a 5-foot-6, 165-pound running back, has been selected for the Rochester (NH) Sports Hall of Fame. A longtime coach of youth sports, he has run three marathons since turning 66 and has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. Foster's Daily Democrat reports.

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ESPN.com has a teaser (you need to be an Insider to read the whole thing) with former Cornell coach and quarterback Jim Hofher, now the offensive coordinator at Delaware, talking about the importance of "knockdowns" on the offensive side. Hofher was 45-35 in eight years at Cornell (1990-97) with one title, a second and no worse than a fourth-place finish. I've often wondered about how Cornell's football fortunes would have fared if Hofher hadn't left to become quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator at North Carolina in 1998.

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And finally, our Hanover Green Machine baseball team stormed to the Connecticut Valley Little League championship with an unbeaten league record and a 22-1 overall mark last year (the lone loss was in a four-inning game in a local 3-Pitch Tournament that we won). After a good deal of deliberation, we moved to Ripken baseball this year and despite graduating a large class of terrific players (and more importantly, terrific kids) we opened the preseason last night with a 29-1 win that would have been worse if we hadn't stopped running after two inning. There's much tougher competition ahead and a young Green Machine will take some lumps this year, but we're going to have fun, which is what it is all about.

In case you are wondering, That Certain Hanover High Graduate played for the Green Machine as did That Certain Hanover High Junior, who was the starting catcher on our most recent championship team before last spring. Both are in the Green Machine Hall of Fame ;-)