{"id":912,"date":"2021-07-19T13:50:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/?page_id=912"},"modified":"2021-07-19T13:50:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:50:57","slug":"don-macleod","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/alumni\/hall-of-fame\/don-macleod\/","title":{"rendered":"Don MacLeod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/fastball\/files\/2021\/07\/Don-MacLeod.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/fastball\/files\/2021\/07\/Don-MacLeod-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"Don MacLeod\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/files\/2021\/07\/Don-MacLeod-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/files\/2021\/07\/Don-MacLeod.jpg 489w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the finest hockey and baseball players in BU history, Don MacLeod won just about every honor available to a student-athlete at the University.<\/p>\n<p>On the ice he was named New England\u2019s top defenseman as a junior, and was All-East three successive years. Selected as an All-American in his senior year, he also won BU\u2019s coveted E. Ray Speare and George V. Brown Memorial Awards as Scholar-Athlete of the Year and most valuable hockey player, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>BU\u2019s ace pitcher for three seasons, he had a career record of 17-6, and often played at second base, shortstop, or in the outfield when not on the mound. He was named to the greater Boston All-Star team three years in a row, and was selected as BU\u2019s most valuable senior baseball player.<\/p>\n<p>After pitching four years in the Milwaukee Braves minor league chain, he became a teacher-coach at Acton-Boxborough H.S. There he headed up the baseball and hockey programs from 1962-67, when he was appointed assistant principal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the finest hockey and baseball players in BU history, Don MacLeod won just about every honor available to a student-athlete at the University. On the ice he was named New England\u2019s top defenseman as a junior, and was All-East three successive years. Selected as an All-American in his senior year, he also won &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/alumni\/hall-of-fame\/don-macleod\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don MacLeod<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2500,"featured_media":0,"parent":69,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/912\/revisions\/914"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}