Harvard's Contribution to Baseball
Harvard may be at the forefront of innovation in nanotechnology and stem cells, but the University can lay claim to a more basic invention as well.
Wired magazine has a story on the patenting of the catcher's mask, 130 years ago this month, by Fred Thayer, who at the time was the captain of the
Harvard baseball team. Harvard Magazine covered Thayer's invention in the past; see stories here and here. Read the Wired story here.
From coaching staffs to front offices, female leaders are bringing new strategies to men’s basketball.
Joe Bertagna’s retirement project recreates figures from Boston sports history.
Six Crimson athletes are headed to the XXV Winter Games in Milano Cortina.
Harvard’s Elbridge Gerry helped draft the U.S. Constitution, but worried it might create a new monarch.
A look at the sights, sounds, and characters that put the University on the frontlines of history
