Other candidates for positions on the pitching staff include Nils Nilsen, Terry Shlimbaum and Keith Butler.

The last vacant slot in park's lineup is the designated bitter which was left empty by the graduation of All-GBL slugger Joe Mackey. The DH spot will be filled during the Crimson's 17-game road trip in Florida over spring vacation. Whoever wields the big bat during the citrus campaign will probably get the nod when Harvard gets back to Cambridge in April.

The Florida trip will feature five games against Niagara College and five games against the Montreal Expos' AA team, and will be the Crimson's final honing before the season. Harvard hosts Tufts and Boston College right off the bat on April 7 and 8 and then Columbia and Penn on April 11 and 12.

Last season the Crimson found itself mired in the middle of the Eastern standings and on the verge of being eliminated by the end of April. A rally in the last inning of the second game of a doubleheader with Cornell saved the Crimson's season hopes, but Harvard had to win two games each from Dartmouth, Princeton and Pennsylvania, and one from Navy to tie for the Eastern title with the Tigers. The Crimson won an emotional playoff contest with Princeton, 5-3, for the EIBL title and then breezed through the District 1 championships. The Crimson did a couple quick tangos with the grand dames of collegiate baseball in the college World Series in Omaha before making an exit out the back door after two straight losses.

This spring Penn, Princeton and Navy look to be the teams to beat in the Eastern League as they all have the whole clubs back. An early indication of how the Crimson will fare this season will come when the Harvard nine takes on the Quakers the first weekend in April.

Before the 1974 season, Park realized that his squad was full of potential. "I know we'll have a good team this year," he said, "but you know, the team that is going to go all the way should be next year's squad. That should really be the one." Hopefully, he will be right.