“It’s definitely a different feel,” said Ingersoll, a San Diego native and Padres fan. “The seats are a little smaller to say the least.” The Padres’ Petco Park counts itself among Major League Baseball’s more modern stadiums.
For Faust, last night’s pitch had been long in the making—she began practicing last spring.
Harvard’s general counsel Robert W. Iuliano ’83 lent Faust a glove to use for the occasion.
Faust said that she would return the glove to Iuliano but with a bit of history imbued. Not only would the glove have been used by a University president to throw out the first pitch at Fenway, Faust also rubbed the glove in its dark, red ocher dirt.
—Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached at egroll@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer William N. White can be reached at wwhite@fas.harvard.edu.