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An article in The New York Times explores how alumni of Haverford College, a small, academically rigorous Division III institution, have come to play an outsize role in professional baseball. While a Haverford pitcher was recently an eighth-round draft pick, the college's power base is off the field. And at least 15 alumni hold significant jobs in baseball, as executives, agents and evaluators of talent. And they all have degrees in the liberal arts and sciences.