Karl Lindholm
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Karl Lindholm: Keegan Bradley is Captain America!
Who is the most prominent and accomplished athlete or sports figure from Vermont on the national or international stage? I have my own candidate.
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Karl Lindholm: Barnes Boffey was a real person
My second night at Middlebury in the fall of 1963, I was roused from my bed after midnight and dispatched with the other freshman men to serenade the…
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Karl Lindholm: Not Cooper Flagg maybe, but these Vermonters were special
If you are a basketball fan, you probably know the name “Cooper Flagg.” This past basketball season, he was the best high school player in the country.
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Karl Lindholm: Bill Walton never died before
Bill Walton died at 71 on May 27, not an age where you can say he was cheated in life, but it does seem he died too young.…
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Karl Lindholm: Recognition is finally here for Negro Leagues
I didn’t think it would ever happen. Practically speaking, I didn’t think it was possible: that is, that the brilliance of Black baseball players during the 60 years…
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Karl Lindholm: Cooperstown is a great place to be!
Have you been to Cooperstown? Recently? It’s about three and a half hours from here, the last 45 minutes of which are off the thruway and run through the…
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Karl Lindholm: Middlebury’s Freddy Mosier has played baseball everywhere!
“I think my passion for baseball started when I was four or five and my dad gave me a baseball card — a card of Albert Belle (a…
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Karl Lindholm: Women’s hoop has a record breaker: Alexa Mustafaj
In the quarterfinals of the NESCAC women’s basketball tournament on Feb. 17, Middlebury was down by four in the third quarter to the dreaded Amherst Mammoths.
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Karl Lindholm: Sports Illustrated emphasized the ‘writing’ in ‘sports writing’
The school was abuzz when I arrived. Students crowded around me, their enthusiasm barely contained. I was their English teacher and coach — and on this day in…
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Karl Lindholm: Coach’s course puts sports and its lessons in context
Mike Leonard and Scott Langerman are friends — friends and colleagues. Together, they offered a Winter Term course at Middlebury College this January, “Sports and Society: How Sports Transcend…
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Clippings: Rip Van Winkle back in the classroom
“I’m Professor Van Winkle — you can call me ‘Rip.’” That’s how I introduced myself this fall on Sept. 9 at 9 a.m. to 16 fresh-faced Middlebury College first-year…
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Karl Lindholm: Brooks was great, but where’s Ray?
Cornwall’s Roth “T” Tall, consummate Baltimore Oriole fan, opened the Rotary Club meeting at Rosie’s Restaurant with a eulogy for Brooks Robinson.
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Clippings: Polishing some pearls of wisdom
My sainted mother, the original Jane Lindholm, had an aphorism for every occasion and loved to trot them out. She was a regular Ben Franklin, and I was…
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Karl Lindholm: Mabrey earns athletic immortality at Middlebury College
In the tenth grade, Edie MacAusland started ski racing at the Franconia Ski Club. At a race at the Snow Bowl, she stole a bib and hung it…
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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.
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Karl Lindholm: Mind over matter: Chris, Luke and Martin
Satchel Paige supposedly said, “Age is a case of mind over matter: if you don’t mind, it don’t matter.” The sentiment applies to Middlebury athlete Chris Hamilton, who…