Pete Varney born April 10, 1949 in Roxbury, Massachusetts

Roxbury, Massachusetts

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, was a Major League Baseball

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 player for the Chicago White Sox

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 and Atlanta Braves

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Varney, a graduate of Deerfield Academy

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 and later Harvard University

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 was first selected by the White Sox in the first round of the 1971 amateur entry draft

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. From 1973 to 1976 he played there professionally. On June 15, 1976 he was traded to the Atlanta Braves in exchange for Blue Moon Odom

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. His last pro

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 game played was on September 12, 1976.

As a historical footnote, the "Big Fella" caught the two-point conversion that tied the 1968 edition of "The Game," the famous Harvard-Yale match up that ended in a tie, but was considered by some as a win up at Harvard, to the point of the Crimson proclaiming at the time "Harvard Beats Yale 29–29."

Varney is currently the head baseball coach at Brandeis University

Brandeis University

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