Karl Lindholm
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My favorite Red Sox player is Lucas Giolito . . .
Giolito is a solid major league pitcher with a career won/loss record of 73-66 – and I knew his grandmother.
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True believers and kindred spirits meet in Louisville
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…
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Karl Lindholm: Local ‘blazer’ is staying close to home
“I would have recruited her if she came from Mars!”
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Karl Lindholm: Jeff Brown let his players create a winning culture
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…
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Karl Lindholm: Bill Lee saves me from Pete Rose
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…
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Peter Lindholm: The (E)motion Offense unites the generations
A common style of offense in basketball is the “motion” offense. Like much of life, it is defined by an oxymoron: constant change.
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Karl Lindholm: Thomas Perry is playing football and trying to ‘get better’ every day
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,…
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Karl Lindholm: Bob Feller, Leon Day and their opening day heroics
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.
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Clippings: Here comes the 10:42, right on time!
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…
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Karl Lindholm: Two Vermont pilgrims visit hoop mecca
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.
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Karl Lindholm: Panthers’ athletic success secret is a ‘wellness guru’
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…
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Karl Lindholm: The indomitable El Tiante deserves to be in Hall of Fame
October 1975: I was a young secondary school teacher in Cleveland at University School, teaching English and coaching baseball and basketball (yes, I’m that old).
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Karl Lindholm: Middlebury Coach Raunecker ‘grew with the program’
When Middlebury College women’s volleyball team defeated Manhattanville College in the 2023 NCAA postseason tournament it gave Middlebury volleyball coach Sarah Raunecker 500 wins exactly for her career…
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Karl Lindholm: Les Streeter was the Skimeister!
Some time ago, at a Reunion event at Middlebury College, I saw an older fellow sitting by himself. His badge said he was in the class of 1957.…
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Karl Lindholm: ‘Any baseball is beautiful,’ especially this one!
The baseball, this magical orb, the actual baseball, Angell’s small miracle of design and utility, has not essentially changed in nearly a century.
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Karl Lindholm: From Patty to Keegan to Lucas — Vermont golfers prevail
I must begin this column with a correction, a mea culpa. In my last column, about golfer Keegan Bradley who was born in Woodstock and spent his early…