Saturday, May 19, 2012

Renaissance Man

If there's been a more interesting player in the Dartmouth football program than Aaron Limonthas over the past decade or so I'd like to meet him. From a Dartmouth Now story about the Houstonian who majors in sociology but minors in women's and gender studies:
While at Dartmouth, he served as Student Assembly president his sophomore summer, was the Afro-American Society vice president, worked as an undergraduate advisor, participated in the Programming Board, was a member of Dartmouth Television, started his own radio show on WDCR, and opened a campus barbershop.
Limonthas, who did an internship for former Dartmouth wide receiver Jimmie Lee Solomon '78 (Major League Baseball's executive vice president for baseball development) last summer and studied in India as well as France, is performing this weekend in the annual Green Key Step Show. Also performing will be former teammate Tyler Melancon, who is stepmaster/choreographer for their act.
Our Green Machine team is off to another terrific start this spring with a 5-0-1 overall record counting  wins the last two nights in the always popular Three Pitch Tournament in Lebanon. If you haven't heard of three-pitch baseball click the link. Batters come to the plate with a 2-ball, 1-strike count and you can't score more than three runs in any inning except the last. Games are capped at one hour and pitchers can't throw more than two innings. Think speed baseball. We've got two more games today.
Speaking of baseball, That Certain Hanover High Senior is seeing only limited action with the Marauders this spring but he's making the most of it, batting .500 (3-for-6) and playing flawlessly at second base. He had five chances in the field yesterday and made them all. It hasn't been an easy adjustment for a former catcher to go from Little League star to role player, but he's making the best of it.
For those of you keeping score, we picked up our new 2000 Subaru Forester yesterday. That Certain Hanover High Senior couldn't stop raving about the "new" car, which when you think about it is either pretty funny or pretty sad. I'm not sure which. It has "only" 100,000 miles on it and really does seem new to me, which I guess says a lot about the late and lamented '93 Expo Vlad. (Oh yeah, we got a $50 junker check for it.)