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On August 16th, 1954, In a throwing contest between Jim Piersall and Willie Mays before a Red Sox-Giants charity game in Boston, Piersall hurt his arm. He started the game but left midway. He woke up the following morning with a sore arm that stayed with him a year, and he would never throw quite as well again. Injuries are part… Read more
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A writer who does not speak out of a full experience uses torpid words, wooden or lifeless words, such words as “humanitary,” which have a paralysis in their tails. Thoreau, Henry David. The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861 Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on July 18, 2011. In the North Country, it is high summer. The heat and humidity weigh upon us and we live indoors as much as possible… just like we do in January. Again, we… Read more
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On August 13th, 1962, Minor League infielder Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (Florida State League) pitched ambidextrously in a relief appearance. Bert Campaneris made 6 Major League All-Star Games over his 19-year career. As an OAKLAND Athletics fan growing up, he was one of my favorite players. I collected his cards and had a picture of him… Read more
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On August 12th, 1994, The Major League Players Union went on strike for the sport’s eighth work stoppage since 1972. In August of 1994, I had a one-year-old daughter and another on the way. And since it was summer, I had baseball to watch. The Twins were struggling but everything in my life was good.… Read more
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He started a fire with some chunks of pine he got with the ax from a stump. Over the fire he stuck a wire grill, pushing the tour legs down into the ground with his boot. Nick put the frying pan and a can of spaghetti on the grill over the flames. He was hungrier. The… Read more
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For a brief period early in my life, I preached a Sunday sermon. When I left that vocation behind, I could not imagine ever wanting to write a “sermon” again. The current times have changed all that. In the face of Post-Truth, Donald Trump, FoxNews, and the intentional de-semination of un-Truth, the best defense we have to redeem ourselves… Read more
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On August 9th, 1997, Twins pitcher Brad Radke had his winning streak end at 12 consecutive starts when Luis Sojo doubled home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning to give the Yankees a 4-1 win before a crowd of 42,151, the second-largest gathering of the season at the Metrodome. Radke (16-6) remains tied with Scott Erickson (1991) for the… Read more
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No dew; no dewy cobwebs. The sky looks mist-like, not clear blue. An aurora fading into a general saffron color. At length the redness travels over, partly from east to west, before sunrise, and there is little color in the east. There is no name for the evening red corresponding to aurora. It is the… Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on October 23, 2012. Frontier moves… like a receding wave that leaves smooth, unbroken sand behind. In American history that wave receded west across the continent and then turned north to the Alaskan frontier. All places… Read more
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