This morning's Globe has a must-read piece on Dan Doyle, a Bates College grad and trustee whom I had the good fortune to meet, quite by happenstance, three years ago--at Pep Boys in Auburn. It was a Saturday night, just before closing. He was there for a new tire prior to driving back from campus to his home in Connecticut. I had arrived by tow truck, my Taurus in need of a new idler pulley after breaking down on the Maine Turnpike in Gray.
After making the Bates connection (my son, Brett, was then in his first year), our conversation was off to the races. Dan's knowledge of New England sports is encyclopedic; he was able to name the coach and best player of the Yale basketball team that I had watched as a student (1967-71). Dan wanted to know all about Brett, whose budding tennis career he promised to follow. I gave Dan a tip about a high-school hoop phenom in the River Valley, a gal named Kaubris, but we ended up letting her get away. She went to Bowdoin instead.
Dan is all about appreciating and respecting people. There is no greater ambassador of sportsmanship, as you may read here:
Dan Doyle draws up a game plan for sports parenting - The Boston Globe
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