Business & Baseball: Whitman Alum Pursues MBA at William & Mary and Big Wins on the Field

Looking through the Whitman College baseball record book, you get a quick sense of the legacy Ben Parker left behind. Among the program’s all-time leaders, he is No. 1 in batting average (.376), slugging percentage (.662), on-base percentage (.475), runs scored (127), home runs (28) and RBI (111). All this despite a 12-game freshman season, which coincided with the COVID-19 outbreak. Having graduated from Whitman last spring, and with two seasons of eligibility remaining, Parker chose to leave the Pacific Northwest for William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. And Division III baseball for D-I. “I wanted to see how good…