Baseball trivia

[BULLO12]

Come on.....don't leave us hanging.......who won the chess match?  

Amherst won the chess match.

From US Chess History:

In 1859, an occurrence of major historic significance to both baseball and chess occurred. Intercollegiate baseball and intercollegiate chess began simultaneously as part of a single event! The first intercollegiate baseball game and the first American intercollegiate chess match were played literally as a "double-header", a combined event between Amherst College and Williams College. The colleges met on a neutral site in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Perhaps because the Amherst catcher was also on the chess team, the baseball encounter took place on July 1 and the chess match on July 2. The Amherst Express carried this headline: EXTRA WILLIAMS AND AMHERST BASEBALL AND CHESS! MUSCLE AND MIND!!

According to that newspaper, Amherst had challenged Williams to a baseball game, but Williams counter-challenged them to a chess team match, so that there would be a "trial of mind as well as muscle."

Amherst won at both sports, and the chess team, upon arriving home 2 days after the baseball team, were "saluted by a storm of cheers, conducted to a barouche, in which they were drawn by their fellow students, with the sound of music, to the residence of President Stearns." Needless to say, it would be surprising these days for a college baseball team or a college chess team to get this kind of reception!

[KnightsRule]

You the man Bullo!!

[KnightsRule]

Bullo,

Williams has some of the most distinguished Alumni of any college on the planet.  Anyway you can find a list of famous alumni?  I listed a few earlier, President Garfield, George Steinebrenner, Fay Vincent, Bart Giamatti, also, Stephen Case(former ceo AOL/TWX)  Arthur Levitt (former SEC chairman).