Editor’s note: The caption accompanying the photo above, taken at the 1939 Princeton-Yale baseball game, requires clarification. The last baseball game played at Reunions between the two schools was in 1966, ending a tradition of nearly 100 years. But an alumni baseball game, instituted the following year, continued to be played at Reunions into the 1990s — with the exception of 1968, when most Reunions events were canceled due to the death of Robert F. Kennedy. According to Jotham Johnson ’64, who was often the informal captain of the alumni team, “The game resumed in 1969 and was played for probably another 20 years, maybe longer — sometimes pitting the alumni against the varsity and sometimes pitting alumni in the even-numbered classes against alumni in the odd-numbered classes.”


The baseball player on the left in the April 28 From the Archives photo is my father, Dr. Richard Howard Demaree ’39. He was a star pitcher; his nickname was Farmer. He passed away in 2001.