First, let me say, when you posted that your Hemmingway was going to be David, my mouth dropped. Today was like opening a Christmas present . Second, Dave please write that book ! Dan Jenkins was right, and your followers will snap it up ! What a great TML today !
I'd read that book Dave...and I am absolutely NOT a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. Your story today was Great Fun. Today, You are 'The Man'. Thanks for "Hemingwaying" today. (For the record, I was a kid in Detroit cheering on the Tigers over your Cardinals in the '68 World Series, but moved to Cincinnati in time to ride the wave of the Big Red Machine. Yes I am a baseball fan for sure.
I was born a Reds fan in 1983 and hate the Cardinals, but I'd gladly and gratefully read a book about the 1946 Cardinals. Musial was impossible not to like.
Please. Write the book. I'll buy a copy for myself and several others to give as gifts to my baseball friends. I'd like to introduce you when you accept The Casey Award for best baseball book.
My younger brother had a vinyl album titled "Stan the Man Musial." Guessing at the title It was around the time he started playing Little League baseball. 1965 or so. He bought the record at a gas station. Still talks about it. I don't think he still has it. Too many moves, but mostly likely lost in a flood.
We lived in Frankfort, KY, and David became a baseball fan early. He is in Lexington and became a Reds fan. Our grandfather listened to the games on the radio, outside on the patio. David often joined him. Granddaddy had been a semi-pro pitcher in his youth.
I will buy that book for him. In a heartbeat.
I was never in the right market to read you in the paper. Gaping hole in my life experience. I did see the 60 Minutes episode about your retirement (not quite working out) and small town girls basketball. Love that you and the team found each other. Thank you for pinch hitting for Doc today. We are honored.
Please write the book. There are likely enough Cardinal fans to make it a best seller, even if they are the only ones to buy it. A lot of us are fascinated by baseball and life during that era and I bet it would also make a great movie. I grew up in Cincinnati, but lived in St. Louis for five years during the Ozzie era and they are now my second favorite team. I had the pleasure of meeting Ozzie Smith twice on TWA flights to/from STL. He was much more approachable than I expected.
Michelle missed mentioning that Kansas is playing at the Taft tonight for their 50 yr anniversary tour. Although there are several new members, they still are great live and continue to show outstanding musicianship. Tom Brislin (on keyboards from Yes) and Joe Deninzon (violin and guitar) are now in the band. I've seen them four times in the past five years and was never disappointed.
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I love your office. It makes me feel much better about my space in the small computer room with my piles of papers at my feet that I "really need to go through and straighten out"...for the last several years. Just can't seem to find the time...gotta get ready for the next Red's game...tonight.
I grew up in Gurnee, IL, a town then of only 1300 people. Loved my childhood on the farm where animals, and my horse and dog meant the most to me. That's what happens when you are not around people very much, I guess. Love is love, no matter where you find it. We grew up playing baseball in our apple orchard most of the summer. BTW, do you remember Jack Brickhouse? I grew up listening to the (Ernie Banks') Cubs as a very young girl and I loved him...but no one here seems to know who he is/was. He lulled me to sleep while listening to him on the radio as he called the Cubs games that oftentimes went into double digit innings in the wee hours of the morning...I remember 20 once around 1:30 a.m....I think it was a record. Write your book!
I'll join the growing echo of folks asking you to write that book.
Write that book.
I'd read it, and I was born in 1977, only know Musial through his legacy and YouTube clips, and care two squats for the Cardinals as a whole. But the era, the way baseball was, and how you would be able to transport us back to those grand days, would completely transcend any biases. We'd be back in 1946, in a golden era of baseball, and reading about one of the best to put on a uniform in Musial.
There have been enough books written about the Yankees, the Dodgers and the Red Sox already. Time for some fresh perspectives, fresh teams and fresh seasons which haven't been flogged to pieces already.
1946, the Cardinals, Stan Musial, and that mad dash by Enos Slaughter sounds just like the elixir we need.
Good luck, and thanks for the fine Guest TML this morning!
In the era of self-publishing, I am not sure why you are hesitating to write the book. It definitely would appeal to a wider audience than a book on girls high school hoops in rural Illinois.
Enjoy the weekend and best wishes with your future book endeavors.
Great column! We can see why our TML author so admires you. Being a little younger than you, Musial retired when I was 8 yrs. old. So I naturally gravitated to the upcoming stars--Mantle, but primarily Mays and Clemente, and many others. There were so many HOFers that played in the 60’s. A golden age for the sport. Growing up in Indy, my brothers and I were NL fans, mostly Cincinnati, San Fran, the Dodgers and the Cardinals. We would memorize lots statistics each season. Many of which I have somehow retained in the file cabinets in my brain. Fun memories indeed. My favorite Cardinals were Gibson, Brock & Flood.
Cardinals fans are pretty amazing. The passion and loyalty live on.
Your book in your grandson sounds like a must read item. Good luck with your next one!
Well. The audacity to write about a...gasp...Cardinal, smack dab in the heart of Reds country...mighty bold. Mighty bold indeed. But Stan wasn't A Cardinal. He was THE Cardinal. And he stands right there with our greats. Perhaps the classiest of them all. I loved this little taste of your writing, and will first seek out the book on your grandson, and await your book of 1946, and the greatest game of all, baseball. If Reds fans are demanding you write that book, you MUST write that book! Hope you revisit us down the road!
Hi Dave - Thanks for sitting in. I'm a big fan. I just wanted to mention how much I enjoyed the "60 Minutes" profile of you covering the girls high school basketball team a while back. It was a great story. Should you do the book? As my Mom used to say to me when I had trouble making a decision, "will you be happy if you don't?"
I saw Stan Musial when Dad would take me to Crosley Field in the early 60's. The thing that was immediately apparent - just from the way he stood at the plate - was that he had more class than anyone else on the field. Gentleman. Read a biography for kids about him - referred to him as "the Donora Greyhound".
First, let me say, when you posted that your Hemmingway was going to be David, my mouth dropped. Today was like opening a Christmas present . Second, Dave please write that book ! Dan Jenkins was right, and your followers will snap it up ! What a great TML today !
I'd read that book Dave...and I am absolutely NOT a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. Your story today was Great Fun. Today, You are 'The Man'. Thanks for "Hemingwaying" today. (For the record, I was a kid in Detroit cheering on the Tigers over your Cardinals in the '68 World Series, but moved to Cincinnati in time to ride the wave of the Big Red Machine. Yes I am a baseball fan for sure.
I was born a Reds fan in 1983 and hate the Cardinals, but I'd gladly and gratefully read a book about the 1946 Cardinals. Musial was impossible not to like.
Please. Write the book. I'll buy a copy for myself and several others to give as gifts to my baseball friends. I'd like to introduce you when you accept The Casey Award for best baseball book.
Here’s an SI piece on how Kindred convinced two strangers to let him write some of his best work.
https://www.si.com/media/2021/07/07/dave-kindred-where-are-they-now-2021
My younger brother had a vinyl album titled "Stan the Man Musial." Guessing at the title It was around the time he started playing Little League baseball. 1965 or so. He bought the record at a gas station. Still talks about it. I don't think he still has it. Too many moves, but mostly likely lost in a flood.
We lived in Frankfort, KY, and David became a baseball fan early. He is in Lexington and became a Reds fan. Our grandfather listened to the games on the radio, outside on the patio. David often joined him. Granddaddy had been a semi-pro pitcher in his youth.
I will buy that book for him. In a heartbeat.
I was never in the right market to read you in the paper. Gaping hole in my life experience. I did see the 60 Minutes episode about your retirement (not quite working out) and small town girls basketball. Love that you and the team found each other. Thank you for pinch hitting for Doc today. We are honored.
Please write the book. There are likely enough Cardinal fans to make it a best seller, even if they are the only ones to buy it. A lot of us are fascinated by baseball and life during that era and I bet it would also make a great movie. I grew up in Cincinnati, but lived in St. Louis for five years during the Ozzie era and they are now my second favorite team. I had the pleasure of meeting Ozzie Smith twice on TWA flights to/from STL. He was much more approachable than I expected.
Michelle missed mentioning that Kansas is playing at the Taft tonight for their 50 yr anniversary tour. Although there are several new members, they still are great live and continue to show outstanding musicianship. Tom Brislin (on keyboards from Yes) and Joe Deninzon (violin and guitar) are now in the band. I've seen them four times in the past five years and was never disappointed.
Here is a link to the likely Set List
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/kansas/2023/benedum-center-for-the-performing-arts-pittsburgh-pa-1bb9418c.html
I love your office. It makes me feel much better about my space in the small computer room with my piles of papers at my feet that I "really need to go through and straighten out"...for the last several years. Just can't seem to find the time...gotta get ready for the next Red's game...tonight.
I grew up in Gurnee, IL, a town then of only 1300 people. Loved my childhood on the farm where animals, and my horse and dog meant the most to me. That's what happens when you are not around people very much, I guess. Love is love, no matter where you find it. We grew up playing baseball in our apple orchard most of the summer. BTW, do you remember Jack Brickhouse? I grew up listening to the (Ernie Banks') Cubs as a very young girl and I loved him...but no one here seems to know who he is/was. He lulled me to sleep while listening to him on the radio as he called the Cubs games that oftentimes went into double digit innings in the wee hours of the morning...I remember 20 once around 1:30 a.m....I think it was a record. Write your book!
I'll join the growing echo of folks asking you to write that book.
Write that book.
I'd read it, and I was born in 1977, only know Musial through his legacy and YouTube clips, and care two squats for the Cardinals as a whole. But the era, the way baseball was, and how you would be able to transport us back to those grand days, would completely transcend any biases. We'd be back in 1946, in a golden era of baseball, and reading about one of the best to put on a uniform in Musial.
There have been enough books written about the Yankees, the Dodgers and the Red Sox already. Time for some fresh perspectives, fresh teams and fresh seasons which haven't been flogged to pieces already.
1946, the Cardinals, Stan Musial, and that mad dash by Enos Slaughter sounds just like the elixir we need.
Good luck, and thanks for the fine Guest TML this morning!
Thanks for filling in today, Dave. Fun read.
In the era of self-publishing, I am not sure why you are hesitating to write the book. It definitely would appeal to a wider audience than a book on girls high school hoops in rural Illinois.
Enjoy the weekend and best wishes with your future book endeavors.
Can't ever get enough of Dave Kindred! Thanks for having him fill in!
Great column! We can see why our TML author so admires you. Being a little younger than you, Musial retired when I was 8 yrs. old. So I naturally gravitated to the upcoming stars--Mantle, but primarily Mays and Clemente, and many others. There were so many HOFers that played in the 60’s. A golden age for the sport. Growing up in Indy, my brothers and I were NL fans, mostly Cincinnati, San Fran, the Dodgers and the Cardinals. We would memorize lots statistics each season. Many of which I have somehow retained in the file cabinets in my brain. Fun memories indeed. My favorite Cardinals were Gibson, Brock & Flood.
Cardinals fans are pretty amazing. The passion and loyalty live on.
Your book in your grandson sounds like a must read item. Good luck with your next one!
Well. The audacity to write about a...gasp...Cardinal, smack dab in the heart of Reds country...mighty bold. Mighty bold indeed. But Stan wasn't A Cardinal. He was THE Cardinal. And he stands right there with our greats. Perhaps the classiest of them all. I loved this little taste of your writing, and will first seek out the book on your grandson, and await your book of 1946, and the greatest game of all, baseball. If Reds fans are demanding you write that book, you MUST write that book! Hope you revisit us down the road!
Please write that book.
Hi Dave - Thanks for sitting in. I'm a big fan. I just wanted to mention how much I enjoyed the "60 Minutes" profile of you covering the girls high school basketball team a while back. It was a great story. Should you do the book? As my Mom used to say to me when I had trouble making a decision, "will you be happy if you don't?"
I saw Stan Musial when Dad would take me to Crosley Field in the early 60's. The thing that was immediately apparent - just from the way he stood at the plate - was that he had more class than anyone else on the field. Gentleman. Read a biography for kids about him - referred to him as "the Donora Greyhound".
Write the book.