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Paul Molitor: a memory
Paul Molitor Paul Molitor [ML Baseball Hall of Fame] was hired yesterday as the new Manager of the Minnesota Twins. In 1994 Mr. Molitor stood ahead of me in line at a McDonalds at the Minneapolis-St....
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Incredibly American: the ARU
“It’s incredibly un-American. My DNA is offended by it.” “It” is the National Basketball Association’s salary cap policy. The speaker is Michele Roberts, the new executive of the NBA Players’...
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Verse – The Chicago Shortstop Smiles in Heaven
Ernie Banks rocks a robe that’s Cubs blue. Pennant hopes are eternal, it’s true, Wrigley’s sky might be gray, Mr. Cub will still say: “It’s a beautiful day–let’s play two!” – Steve Shoemaker, Urbana,...
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Mr. Cub and Dr. Borg
Ernie Banks, known with great affection against his protestations as “Mr. Cub”, died yesterday, two days after theologian Marcus Borg. Each excelled in his respective field, Ernie in the ivy-covered...
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Remembering Ernie Banks
There is no bigger Cub’s fan than Harry Strong. Ernie Banks – “Mr. Cub” – who died Friday night, was his hero. And Harry KNOWS baseball. So much so that the editor of American Sports: A History of...
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Verse – A Sign for Locker Rooms
The best coaches in sports are all teachers, Although some it’s true also are preachers, But the one that we fear And try not to go near Is the coach that consistently screeches. – Steve Shoemaker,...
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Hey Chicago, waddya say?
Long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans like Steve Shoemaker are excited about this season. The Cubs look like a serious contender in 2015. The club’s new owners have invited fans to write a new song for home...
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Ask much of us
“Ask much of us, expect much of us, enable much by us, encourage many through us.” These words from the prayer that followed Holy Communion yesterday (the Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday) at Trinity...
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Even our best intentions…
As Sesame Street’s Kermit the Frog croaks that it’s not easy being green, today reminds me that it’s not easy being right, whatever “right” is. The Presbyterian Church (USA) recently amended the...
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Texas Flood, Ted Cruz, and Zombie games
The other night a professional baseball game was played during a torrential downpour at Target Field in Minnesota. Meanwhile down in Texas, historic level floods were rising. Senator Ted Cruz, the...
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Verse by inveterate Cubs fan
(The Bus Has A Restroom) Seniors on the bus The bus carries seniors, yes, 50 or more. To see the Cubs play, to see the Cubs score! We ride for 3 hours, But then come the showers, And thunder and...
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A Limerick for World’s Greatest Cubs Fan
Map to Wrigley Field from Urbana, IL For the Cubs 1-0-7 long years Crying No-Series-Winner sad tears. Yes, I live far away, But soon on that great day Baby Bruins will sure hear my cheers! – Steve...
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Flip Saunders and the Media
Yesterday morning Minnesota media announced the untimely death of Flip Saunders, one of Minnesota’s most beloved public figures. Cheered long ago as the diminutive starting point guard of the...
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How I Became a Catcher
Once upon a time a long time ago, I was a little “Big A”, a Little League baseball team in Broomall, Pennsylvania. So was Coach McBride’s short son, Dickie, the 10 year-old Little League All Star...
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Super Bowl Halftime
It’s halftime. It’s a FOOTBALL FIELD. Football players play on this field. Except at halftime when the field becomes a hug stage – a plastic-wood-steel or something stage rolled out to the middle of...
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The Baseball Cap on Memorial Day
I’m a baseball fan. I love baseball. I turn on the TV. It’s Memorial Day. My team, the Minnesota Twins, is wearing visitor’s gray. The Oakland As are wearing white. That’s tradition. But today...
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Limerick on Chicago Cubs
For the Cubs 1-0-7 long years Crying No-Series-Winner sad tears. Yes, I live far away, But soon on that great day Baby Bruins will sure hear my cheers! – Steve Shoemaker (1943-2016). Views from the...
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Limerick on Chicago Cubs
Steve with Chicago Cubs mascot. For the Cubs 1-0-7 long years Crying No-Series-Winner sad tears. Yes, I live far away, But soon on that great day Baby Bruins will sure hear my cheers! – Steve Shoemaker...
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All Saints Day
This All Saints Day —the first without Steve Shoemaker, a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan whose life ambition was to see the Cubs win the World Series –I took the liberty of re-writing a stanza of the...
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The Gophers and the Groper
Until University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler shared with the university football players (“the Gophers”) the investigation report of alleged sexual assault that led to the suspension of 10 of...
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