Karl Lindholm
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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…
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Karl Lindholm: ‘I was sure he had been shot’; baseball and high anxiety
I have attended, in person, thousands of baseball games, many thousands, but one stands out in high relief: This game was the most dramatic I have witnessed in…
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Karl Lindholm: ‘Nancy made it fun.’ Middlebury hoop star became medical leader
This is the story of Nancy Gaden, basketball player extraordinaire. Before we tell of Nancy’s accomplishments, let’s set the context: if you look at the record book in…
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Karl Lindholm: Professor Basketball and his friends
Donald “Dee” Rowe, Middlebury College, class of 1952, died at age 91 on January 10. Dee was a major figure in basketball circles in New England and nationally:…
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Karl Lindholm: The Indians of Cleveland — and me
“The Yankees cannot lose.” “But I fear the Indians of Cleveland.” (“The Old Man and the Sea,” Ernest Hemingway, 1956) The Indians are my second favorite…
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Karl Lindholm: What’s in a number? Immortality!
The best uniform number in sports is 42, Jackie Robinson’s number. It’s been retired by Major League Baseball — no MLB player will ever wear it again. That’s…
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Karl Lindholm: The Pride of Memphis: Larry, Lefty, and Charley
The latest in a series of columns inspired by the centennial of baseball’s Negro Leagues. In any discussion of race and baseball, Red Sox don’t fare very well…
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Karl Lindholm: The Turkey Day Classic
Editor’s note: This Thanksgiving column by popular columnist Karl Lindholm is an oldie but a goodie. Originally published in 2001 (all the ages are almost two decades out…
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Karl Lindholm: Pandemic sports: ‘The best part of their day’
Katharine DeLorenzo’s Middlebury College field hockey team has won three NCAA Division III championships in a row with an overall won-loss record in that time of 62-4. This…
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Karl Lindholm: Golf musings 2020: A good walk spoiled?
I was hoping to get my pals together for one last round of golf before we shut it down for the winter. Monday night last week, Election Eve,…
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Karl Lindholm: Satch, Fleet, and Diz: The “Porous” color line
Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series inspired by the centennial this year of baseball’s Negro Leagues. Baseball, the American version of the British games of…
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Karl Lindholm: Wait’ll next year: Johnny Podres, Bill Kingston, and the ’55 Dodgers
It’s October — time to talk a little baseball, right? League playoffs now, World Series coming right up. Alas, only the hardball diehards in this strangest of all…
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Clippings: A summer day with fall foliage
As I write this, It’s almost painfully beautiful outside. It is the weekend of the 25th of September, on Saturday. It’s like a mid-summer day, with temperatures nearly…
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Karl Lindholm: Charley and Doc Sykes, sportsmen of character and integrity
Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series inspired by the centennial of baseball’s Negro Leagues. “Whether confronting the challenges of world population growth or the nutritional…
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Karl Lindholm: Jackie, then Larry: Pumpsie was first. Who was second?
Latest in a series of reflections inspired by the 2020 centennial of Baseball’s Negro Leagues. Larry Doby was the second Black player in the major leagues, first appearing…
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Karl Lindholm: Fortitude, creativity and excellence: “We Are the Ship”
Editor’s note: Third in a series on the centennial of baseball’s Negro leagues. Perhaps you have seen the cover of the New Yorker magazine from June 22. It has been…