Wolff Selected in MLB Draft

After two long, disappointing days, the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft provided no easy answers for hopeful members of the Harvard baseball team.

In all probability, not even for the lone member who was picked.

Neither captain catcher Schuyler Mann nor junior infielder Zak Farkes—who was selected last year in the 39th round by the Boston Red Sox—was selected by a team.

Surprisingly, junior John Wolff was.

Wolff, a reserve player on the Crimson, was picked in the 47th round—1,407th overall—by the Chicago White Sox. There are 50 rounds total.

The Armonk, N.Y., native out of Byram Hills High School played in just eight games in 2005 and started two of them, registering one hit in 11 plate appearances. He missed his entire freshman year due to injury, and appeared in nine games in 2004, going 4-for-8 on the season.

Wolff’s father, Rick Wolff ’74, was drafted after his junior year at Harvard by the Detroit Tigers, while his grandfather, the famous Bob Wolff, was a Hall of Fame broadcaster most notable for his work with the Washington Senators.

—PABLO S. TORRE