Some sexual graffiti on a Babson College wall was credited by Richard Ben Cramer in a 1986 Esquire profile of Ted Williams with landing John Henry at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, in the mid 1980s.
”I was shocked when John-Henry got into Bates,” said Chip Wolcott, who coached the boy at Vermont Academy, told Joseph Kahn, a Boston Globe writer. ”But I heard Ted went with him and signed a bunch of baseballs in the admissions office, so who knows?”
Mike Fisher, who penned “The Splendid Whiffer” for Sports Illustrated in June 2003, noted John Henry tried out for, but couldn’t make the Bates baseball team. He couldn’t make the UMaine team at Orono, either. Dad Ted put him at the state university after supposedly spotting more sexually explicit graffiti on a Bates wall.
John Henry graduated from UMaine in 1991 with a degree in marketing.
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