Nick Lovullo, a College of the Holy Cross senior and son of the Boston Red Sox interim manager Torey Lovullo, discusses his relationship with baseball and his father after being drafted in the 34th round for the Red Sox in June. The Globe calls Luvollo “a slick-fielding shortstop” who “led the Crusaders with a .410 on-base percentage last spring.”
“I was kind of speechless,” Lovullo told the Globe when he learned he had been drafted. “Shocked. It was right before a game. Our athletic trainer said, ‘Congratulations, that’s awesome.’ I said, ‘What’s going on?’”
Lovullo ultimately made the decision to stay at Holy Cross and finish his degrees, maintaining a 3.0 GPA, before going on to achieve his dream of playing in the major leagues. “You’re definitely looked at differently,” he says, following the draft announcement. “You’re held to a different standard. Sometimes you’re having a bad game but you can’t show it. You have to respect the game.”
Lovullo accredits his father’s advice for his work ethic: “The main thing I learned from Dad is always play the game hard…You’re going to have your ups, you’re going to have your downs. Stay consistent, even-keeled. Don’t let it get to the point where it controls your life. Enjoy every second of it.”
Lovullo will graduate from Holy Cross in May with a B.A. in economics and history. “He’s brilliant,” says his father. “He was reluctant to stay. He wanted to start his dream, and I told him, ‘It’ll be there in another year…’”
- Read the entire article on the Boston Globe’s website.
This “Holy Cross in the news” item is by Emma Collins ’16
