"Tiny Haverford College an Unlikely Pipeline to Major League Baseball’s Front Offices"

[LucieTheLakie]

Nice article in the Times.

Founded by Quakers in 1833 and located in the Philadelphia suburbs, Haverford, with a student body of only about 1,200, competes in the N.C.A.A.’s Division III, where athletic scholarships are prohibited. And the academically elite Haverford does not offer a major in physical education or sports management, perhaps among the nation’s trendiest fields of study. Yet in June, when Haverford pitcher Tommy Bergjans was chosen in the eighth round of Major League Baseball’s draft, the selection was made by a Haverford graduate, Josh Byrnes, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ senior vice president for baseball operations. Bergjans’s agent, Jon Fetterolf, was also a Haverford graduate.Bergjans joined an industry that prominently features another Haverford alumnus, Tony Petitti, the chief operating officer of Major League Baseball. Along the way, Bergjans was evaluated by the Mets scout Jim Thompson, also a Haverford graduate, and was instructed by Haverford’s pitching coach, Nat Ballenberg, another alumnus.

http://nyti.ms/1IFlP14