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Sports column by Karl Lindholm: Thoughts upon watching '42'

Posted on May 2, 2013 |
By Karl Lindholm



I knew I had a problem when my friend Ben, from California, e-mailed me after watching “42,” the Jackie Robinson story, and being profoundly moved. He said, “Tell me again why you’re not looking forward to seeing this movie.”

True, I have expressed ambivalence. I sometimes tire of the exclusivity of the focus on Jackie Robinson. The more I have learned about the African-American experience in baseball, the more rich stories and worthy figures I have become aware of.

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Eagle baseball falls to BFA-St. Albans, but rise again vs. Harwood

Posted on April 29, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Union High School baseball team came back from a tough home loss to BFA-St. Albans on Thursday to claim its first victory of the season in a game against Harwood in Duxbury on Saturday.

BFA-St. Albans rode a stellar pitching performance from southpaw Ryan Connor and a free-swinging attack to convincingly beat the Eagles, 12-1, at the Mount Abe diamond on April 25.

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Tiger baseball tops Slaters, but then drop next two games

Posted on April 22, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School baseball team gave new coach Charlie Messenger a win in his first game this past Wednesday, 10-5 over visiting Fair Haven, but came up short in its next two games.

On Thursday, visiting South Burlington struck early in an 11-1 win, and on Saturday, host St. Johnsbury snapped a 2-2 tie with a pair of unearned runs in the fifth inning to win, 4-2.

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Lindholm Sports Column: Marco ... Scutaro: The Giants win the World Series

Posted on November 1, 2012 |
By Karl Lindholm



This past Sunday night Marco Scutaro knocked in the winning run for the San Francisco Giants in the deciding game of the World Series. Before that, he was the MVP of the National League Championship Series with a .500 batting average and a lot of big hits.

Why can’t the Red Sox get a player like that?

Oh yes, we had him for two years before banishing him to Colorado this past offseason.

Marco joined other diminutive second basemen, Bobby Richardson and Bill Mazeroski, as World Series heroes.

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Sports Column: Moving from the Panthers to the Baltimore Orioles

Posted on October 4, 2012 |
By Karl Lindholm



Editor’s note: This story was published in the Sept. 20 Addison Independent, but is being reprinted here because of a printer’s error in that edition.

Middlebury College senior Mike Joseph loves baseball — and now he has a shot, a long shot perhaps, to embark on a career in baseball, having signed a contract in August with the Baltimore Orioles.

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Sports column: Mike Trout - big catch, or one who got away?

Posted on August 23, 2012 |
By Karl Lindholm



 

Here he comes, just at the start, and he’s a beauty.

The Phee-nom.

I wish it were the old days, when baseball in August was just heating up, prelude to the pennant run and the Series, and not a concession to the colossus that is football these days. 

What a great baseball season in the Majors we have, this summer.

Sure, the Red Sox are down — how can they not be, with all those injuries: 26 players on the “disabled list” this summer, the most of any team in the last 25 years. Now, Middlebrooks.

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Commodores just slide by Eagles

Posted on June 4, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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VERGENNES — In 2007, the Vergennes Union High School baseball team defeated both Otter Valley and Mount Abraham on the way to the Division II title.

This spring, the Commodores are hoping history will repeat itself.

In a Friday quarterfinal, No. 2 VUHS hung on for a 3-2 win over the No. 10 Eagles that ended when Mount Abe stranded the go-ahead runs in scoring position.

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Eagle boys run away with game in the 6th

Posted on April 30, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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BRISTOL — For five-and-a-half innings on Saturday, the host Mount Abraham and Middlebury union high school baseball teams battled on even terms in a crisp game that stood at 3-3.

Then, in the sixth, things started going wrong for a Tiger team that had been playing well enough to win three straight road games and enter the day at 3-1.

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OV nine starts by thumping Chiefs

Posted on April 5, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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BRANDON — The Otter Valley Union High School baseball season got off to a promising start on Monday, when the Otters doubled up visiting Green Mountain Union, 10-5, on a cold, blustery afternoon in the opener for both teams.

OV snapped a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the fourth on a two-out, two-run single by junior catcher Thomas Roberts, and then broke the game open with five runs in the bottom of the fifth.

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Legion nine falls in Vermont tourney

Posted on July 28, 2011 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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CASTLETON — With two losses in three outings, the Addison County American Legion baseball team bowed out of this past weekend’s double-elimination Vermont Legion championship tournament at Castleton State College.

AC, the Northern Division’s No. 4 seed, rallied on Saturday for a win in its second game, 9-6, over Southern No. 3 Lakes Region, but that victory was bookended by an opening loss on Friday to Southern No. 1 Bennington, 8-0, and in a Sunday elimination contest to Northern No. 1 Essex, 4-1.

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