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Leopard makes an impression with the most decorated team in baseball.

Photo by GETTY SPORTS

Yankees right-handed reliever David Bednar ’17 had the first post-season save of his Major League Baseball career against the Red Sox on Oct. 1. He would go on to close the final game of that series and make two additional saves against the Blue Jays in the 2025 ALDS. Bednar, drafted by the Padres in 2016, was playing for the Pirates before being acquired by New York and general manager Brian Cashman P’27 in July.

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Amy Downey is the editor-in-chief of Lafayette magazine. She has 20 years of experience in the magazine industry, including being on the editorial staffs at city regional publications such as Boston and Philadelphia. More recently, she was a senior editor for Penn Stater, the alumni magazine of Penn State University, from where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English with a focus in creative writing and publishing. She and her family moved to the Lehigh Valley in 2017.

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