Bob Collins
There’s reserved seating in Baseball Heaven for Bill Dugan, a Detroit Tigers fan who was raised right.
He caught five foul balls in yesterday’s Detroit-Pittsburgh game. Read more →
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Here’s today’s daily dose of sweetness, which continues our unofficial theme of the day: Baseball. Read more →
The girl’s hockey coach at Stillwater High School has resigned for mysterious reasons but as is usually the case, particular with schools, the privacy cone of silence has dropped over the situation. Read more →
There’ve already been several rainouts and postponements because baseball insists on having northern teams playing at home, while teams in domed stadiums play each other, teams in southern California play each other, and while teams in Texas go on the road. Read more →
Ron Krassin put his quadcopter to good use yesterday, documenting the damage from the fire yesterday that destroyed the Tink Larson ballfield in Waseca. Read more →
An odd thing happened today when someone wore a T-shirt of a sports team featuring a racial caricature. It offended some people. Read more →
There’s certainly plenty to love in this video about a group of surfers on Lake Superior. The visuals are stunning. More impressive is the revelation that they’re not just chasing waves on a lake.
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The grandstand at Tink Larson Field in Waseca, a jewel of youth and town ball in Minnesota, burned to the ground last night. Read more →
Each year, artists submit portraits of waterfowl in the wild and one is selected for the stamp, the money from which is used to protect waterfowl habitat.
Now, the Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing that the portraits include other birds that aren’t hunted migratory waterfowl as a way to gin up interests from birders in the stamps.
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Let the record show that the story on the greatest women’s basketball team in the history of the game this morning ended up on page C4 of the Star Tribune. It didn’t rate a mention anywhere on the Pioneer Press’ sports website.
The University of Connecticut Huskies won their 11th national championship, dismantling Syracuse last night 82-to-51, completing a 38-0 season.
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Minnesota’s NBA team this season has now beaten the best team in the league, and lost to the worst team (Philadelphia) in the league. Read more →
Baseball long ago figured out if you feed reporters, they’ll write just about anything you want them to, and miss the story you don’t want them to write. Read more →
It was two years ago this week that a fan dressed as the Cleveland Indians’ “Chief Wahoo” confronted protesters outside Progressive Field in Cleveland, where the Indians were playing the first game of the year. Peter Pattakos took the picture of Robert Roche of the American Indian Education Center and fan Pedro Rodriguez, and encouraged Read more →
From the sound of things, it’s only a matter of time before the Minnesota Timberwolves’ scheme to control the reseller market for tickets reaches baseball. Read more →
Anything Wisconsin can do, Minnesota can do the same, apparently. Read more →