Film celebrates the journey of Negro League baseball

Next week, Thursday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m., the 2023-2024 MNFF Selects Monthly Movie Screening Series continues with a presentation of “The League,” at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury.

Karl Lindholm: Checking in with the peripatetic Bill Lee

I gave Bill Lee a call last week, hoping he was at his home in Craftsbury and we might arrange a visit. I was concerned for his health.

Karl Lindholm: The Rotarians, COVID and a Colossus

Karl muses on the Impossible Dream Red Sox of 1967, the amazing Shohei Ohtani and Major League Baseball this year.

Karl Lindholm: Nuf Ced, Tessie, Honey Fitz and the Royal Rooters

The timing was right, and ripe, for those first-generation Irish boys to be swept up by the baseball fever that had overtaken America after the Civil War — and indeed the Irish dominated the early game.

Legion nine finishes strong for playoff berth

The Addison County American Legion baseball team finished the regular season with a flourish to earn a berth in this past weekend’s state tournament at Castleton University.

Legion nine wins just one, but it was key

The Addison County American Legion team came up short against two top Northern Division teams in four games in the past week, but came through in a must-win showdown on Monday against Franklin County. 

Karl Lindholm: Another woman in the Baseball Hall of Fame?

A long time ago, Dec. 9, 1999 to be exact, in my first year offering these pearls of wisdom in the Independent, I started a column with “Fenway Park: What a dump!” and went to offer additional observations in that vein.

Babe Ruth team wins Vermont title

A Babe Ruth baseball team with seven Addison County players, as well as several from Chittenden County, won a state championship this past weekend in games held at Missisquoi Union High School. 

Legion baseball still in running for postseason

The Addison County American Legion baseball team dropped three out of four games in the past week, but the team at 3-6 overall remains on the hunt for the final Northern Division playoff spot. 

Karl Lindholm: The third front of baseball’s integration: Trois Rivières, 1946

Road trip to Trois Rivières, Quebec, for a ballgame. At least that was the plan.

AC nine takes two of three from Montpelier

The Addison County American Legion baseball team won two out of three games late last week, including the squad’s first win of 2023, to improve to 2-4.

Tough opponents and weather slow Legion nine

The Addison County American Legion baseball team has gotten off to a slow start in more ways than one this summer.

Regional baseball players named as league all-stars

Twenty-one members of the Middlebury, Mount Abraham, Vergennes and Otter Valley union high school baseball teams received postseason recognition from the Lake Division or the Southern Vermont League B Division, and two were also chosen for the Vermont Twi … (read more)

VUHS baseball reaches semis but falls, 10-6

In Division III baseball playoff action on Tuesday, No. 5 White River defeated No. 8 Vergennes Union High School, 10-6. Game details were not available at press time.

OV baseball wraps at 10-8

Host No. 1 Missisquoi ousted the No. 8 Otter Valley Union baseball team from the Division II playoffs on Saturday, 11-2, in a quarterfinal. The T-Birds improved to 16-1, while the Otters wrapped up at 10-8.

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