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Of White Mules and Elysian Fields

March 20, 2010

It’s spring now in Maine, and in a few short months the state will become a playground for the families of Boston hedge fund managers. But for now, its picturesque hills and streams and miles and miles of rocky coastline are the provenance of the locals alone, their just reward for weathering another insufferably long New England winter.

Waterville is one of those small Maine towns just now reacquainting itself with the concept of green grass. Look on a map and you can find it – right there off of I-95, between the coast and the mountains, about an hour from L.L. Bean.

Better yet, take the long way. Head north on Route One from Portland, up the coast and cut through the small towns along the way. Towns with impossibly New Englandesque names like Falmouth, Sheepscot and Hayden Corner. Continue along River Road until it reaches the very top of Mayflower Hill. That’s where Colby College is.

Baseball is played there. And we will follow it. We'll be watching from afar as they play their first game tonight against Union College.

We’ll continue to check in from time to time as the White Mules seek to improve upon 2009’s 8-24 season and fight for a NESCAC tournament berth. We’ll open up our analytic toolbox and try to provide some insight you might not get anywhere else. But mostly we’ll just obsess about things, because it’s college, and it’s baseball, and that’s what we do.