Karl Lindholm: Yoshida, Koji, Ohtani — and Horace Wilson

Who is that fellow playing left field for the Red Sox this season? He bats left-handed and throws right-handed and is hitting .327 with six homers and 22 RBI after a slow start and has led the Red Sox recently on an eight-game win streak — and has hit safely in 16 consecutive games at the time of this writing.

Francois Clemmons to celebrate 400 years of Negro Spirituals

Francois Clemmons has sung spirituals his entire life and is a preeminent interpreter and champion today of the American Negro Spiritual. He will give a concert in Middlebury on May 6.

Karl Lindholm: Angus Barstow is a golf pro & elementary school teacher

When Middlebury’s Angus Barstow won the “Hills are Alive” Tournament in Stowe last September he took home the top prize: $297.00.

Clippings: A long ritual that’s fit to be in print

I’m trying to break my newspaper habit. For all of my adult life, I have read a newspaper, real newspapers, made out of paper, newsprint. Hard copy. 

Karl Lindholm: Fenway meditations: Impressions of a Red Sox fan

I don’t actually remember my first game. I was too young. But I can imagine it, the incomparable thrill of it, because I have been similarly affected every time I have gone to Fenway since.

Karl Lindholm: Kelly, Noelle, and ‘the Bat!’

“The Bat” sits prominently on the windowsill in the office of Middlebury College softball coach Kelly Bevere. It’s a crummy old bat really, not much good for anything now, worn out, pretty much out of hits, but assuming a deservedly honored spot. 

Karl Lindholm: ‘Value on the margins’: Phillies scout Erick Dalton

The image of a baseball scout in the popular mind is that of a wise and wizened veteran of the game, the way scouts are portrayed in “Money Ball,” for example, or like Clint Eastwood in the movie “Trouble with the Curve.” Well, the game has changed.

Karl Lindholm: Winter Carnival, Panther Olympians: Becky Fraser

This weekend is the 100th Middlebury Winter Carnival and I find myself absorbed, perhaps ironically given the above, by Middlebury ski history and culture.

Karl Lindholm: ‘Candlesticks always make a nice gift’

I love watching movies with my kids, now adults. These days, that usually means watching from home in a darkened living room on the big TV, without phones and other distractions.  

Karl Lindholm: ‘Is this heaven?’ ‘No, it’s Pepin’

If I were the impresario of the Middlebury Men’s Alumni Basketball Weekend, I would have done it up right, with great hoopla.

Karl Lindholm: Warming up to the college’s sports hall of fame

About 10 years ago, I got wind of a plan to initiate a Middlebury College Athletics Hall of Fame to coincide with the construction of the new field house. I thought this was a very bad idea and I wrote to the big shots at Middlebury and told them so.

Karl Lindholm: The Castigliones of Middlebury — and Joe!

Now, dear readers, what you may not know is “Voice of the Red Sox” Joe’s relationship to Middlebury and Middlebury College. 

Karl Lindholm: ‘Señor Coach’ — Panther Hall of Famer and renaissance man Sam Guarnaccia

It seemed Sam knew everybody. He was a visible presence on campus: a robust man physically, warm and expressive. He loved teaching, he loved coaching football, and above all, he loved working with students.

Karl Lindholm: A volleyball adventure at MUHS

Next fall, a year from now, Middlebury Union High School will add a varsity sport and have a girls’ varsity volleyball team, not a club but a fully sanctioned team.

Karl Lindholm: Be careful of pickleball — it’s addictive!

Every time I read a reference to “pickleball,” the next words are “the fastest growing sport in America.”

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