Old man still plays with his baseball cards

Karl Lindholm still enjoys playing with his baseball cards, from a taped 1956 Topps Jackie Robinson to collections that form a history of baseball in 20th century.

“Can you imagine reading about sports in the Addison Independent and not seeing Andy Kirkaldy’s byline?”

Karl Lindholm examines how MUHS has such a successful football team, year after year.

Mark Twain in fact was an avid baseball fan.

Giolito is a solid major league pitcher with a career won/loss record of 73-66 – and I knew his grandmother.

August 1972: My last (of six) Army Reserve “summer camps,” this one at Fort Knox, Kentucky, working in the hospital there.  After my two weeks of duty, I was headed back to Cleveland in my VW Beetle (bought new for $1,995) where I was teaching high school … (read more)

“I would have recruited her if she came from Mars!”

Duncan Edwards, a lifelong educator, described Jeff Brown as “a great coach but an even better man. My son is a better man for having been in his presence — there is no truer or lasting measure of success than that.”

Writing about Pete Rose filled me with despair. Pete died last September at age 83. I was hoping interest in him might fade with the man. Alas, he’s back.

A common style of offense in basketball is the “motion” offense. Like much of life, it is defined by an oxymoron: constant change.

The big event in the U.S. sports world this week is the annual college draft of the National Football League. There is a genuine possibility that Thomas Perry, a Middlebury College senior, will be one of the 250 players selected to join the approximately … (read more)

Last week, Thursday, was Major League Baseball’s Opening Day, despite the fact that the Dodgers and Cubs had played two official games in Japan the week before.

I’m in church when the Amtrak train, the Ethan Allen Express, rumbles by on Sunday mornings. It used to be at 11:05, right near the end of the service during the last hymn or the closing words. The schedule has changed: now it goes by at 10:42, right in t … (read more)

In January, I got a call from my college friend Greg: “Hey Karl, want to see Cooper Flagg in person?” he asked. “Heck, yes,”  I said.

Here’s the setting: The cavernous Virtue Field House at Middlebury College, 10 a.m. on a quiet Sunday morning early in the fall, the football season. Some 40 to 50 young men, all dressed similarly, shorts and t-shirts with “Middlebury Football” lettering, … (read more)