Karl Lindholm
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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…
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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.
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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 —…
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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…
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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.
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Karl Lindholm: Local boy makes good — in golf!
Hogan Beazley, a 2019 graduate of Middlebury Union High School, and now Middlebury College as well, has done his namesake proud.
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Karl Lindholm: Vic Power & Piper Davis: Should have been first!
One thing the Red Sox and Yankees had in common, historically, was a reluctance to sign dark-skinned players after the historic breakthrough in 1947 of Jackie Robinson with…
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Mending Wall and Yankee Friendship
Many of the poems of Robert Frost, the Bard of Ripton, are celebrations and deliberations on seasonal change in this part of the world.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.