Karl Lindholm
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Karl Lindholm: Campy, Newk and New Hampshire’s Holman Stadium
I have wanted to go to a game in Holman Stadium in Nashua, N.H., for a long time because of the park’s historical significance.Finally, this summer I did,…
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Karl Lindholm: Bat lefty — it’s a big deal!
You want your kid to be a major leaguer, and make a ton of money, so you can retire and live on Easy Street?Well, turn him around!Make sure…
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Karl Lindholm: A marriage of true (baseball) minds: Giants-Red Sox
As she was exploring the campus on her very first day at Middlebury College in August 1986, young professor Brett Millier encountered Frank Kelley, the director of residential…
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Karl Lindholm: Spaceman, Lake Monsters, and bliss
This week’s column is written in a similar spirit to those of the other sports columnist, the angler, who takes us to lakes, ponds, and streams through sylvan…
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Karl Lindholm: Robin Roberts, Ray Fisher, and the 2nd Northern League of Vermont
In the last game of his sophomore year at Michigan State in 1946, Robin Roberts lost 2-0 to archrival Michigan, coached by a 58-year-old Ray Fisher.At game’s end,…
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Karl Lindholm: Centennial and Rickwood Fields, baseball shrines
Centennial Field in Burlington is Vermont’s baseball shrine.Constructed from 1904 to 1906, Centennial has been the site of stirring baseball action for nearly a century and a quarter.…
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Karl Lindholm: Road trip! To WooSox-Land!
OK, baseball fans, if you could build a ballpark, the perfect ballpark, and you had the money and the clout to make it happen, what would it look…
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Karl Lindholm: Theo-logy: Fixing the national pastime II
Second of two parts; read the first part here.A week ago last Sunday, the brilliant Shohei Ohtani of the Angels hit a game-winning homer with two outs in…
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Clippings: Hey, I was just being colloquial!
I never was good at math, ever. But I liked to read as a kid, and to write. I got that from my mom, who was the wordsmith…
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Karl Lindholm: Baseball’s immutability: Fixing the national pastime
The first of two parts So, baseball fans, what do think about starting extra innings in a tied baseball game with a runner on second, the way it…
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Karl Lindholm: Men’s basketball: Grieving a lost season
Tara Parker-Pope is the editor of “Well,” the New York Times consumer health site. On March 15, she wrote a piece titled “It’s OK to Grieve the Small…
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Karl Lindholm: Women in baseball III: Sara Tobias
This three-part series on Women in Baseball was supposed to be just a two-parter: one on women in the front offices of Major League Baseball and another on…
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Karl Lindholm: Women in baseball II: Bianca, Toni, and Ila!
Second in a series Just a few weeks after Kim Ng was hired by the Miami Marlins to run their team as the general manager, the Red Sox…
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Karl Lindholm: A new day for women in baseball
The first in a series. This has been a good year for women in baseball. That’s a sentence that could not have been written before this year. This…
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Clippings: Notes of a pandemic skywatcher
I am not a winter person. I don’t like winter. Never have. I have lived in Maine or Vermont nearly my whole life. That’s probably why I don’t…
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Karl Lindholm: Good times and puck history at Rockefeller Center North
Driving down Route 125, College Street, as I do most days, I noticed a temporary structure had gone up in the middle of the Middlebury College campus. It’s…