The explanation, notes the website: While playing pro ball, Hendricks managed to earn a degree in economics from Dartmouth. Before turning pro in 2011, the former Big Green star pitcher helped Dartmouth win back-to-back Ivy League titles in 2009 and 2010
“Academics are important to me, but baseball has always been what I wanted to do,” Hendricks tells MiLB. com. Dartmouth Head Baseball Coach Bob Whalen knew that, Hendricks says, “and when I got drafted, he was fully supportive. But I had to promise not only him but my mom, too, that I would come back and graduate. It was important to me, but they made me promise.”
Read the full story, published 1/22/14 by MiLB.com.
