Andre Dawson Elected to Baseball Hall of Fame – MLB
Thursday, January 7, 2010 15:05
Alex Ness is a writer, a poet, and a reader. You can find links to all his work at http://alexnesspoetandwriter.blogspot.com. His first post for DeepIntoSports.com recalls his fond memories of Andre Dawson’s playing days in commemoration of The Hawk’s election to baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Memories and the Hawk
1969: Twins versus Tigers in Metropolitan Stadium, Bloomington, Minnesota. 4-1, Tigers win.
The Stonewall riots occur. The Woodstock music festival happens. Men land upon the Moon with Apollo 11. The Brady Bunch premieres.
As a boy growing up in small town Wisconsin, I was force-fed a diet of NFL football as the only acceptable sport by my father. I loved my father, mind you, but he didn’t much care about anything that wasn’t Minnesota Vikings football. It wasn’t that he didn’t try, but ultimately all he seemed to care about was football (without going into gory details, that might be true of his life, too…). The first baseball game that I attended was a Minnesota Twins game in 1969. I was 6 years old and we had driven to Minnesota specifically for the game. I was too young to understand much, but, after that game, baseball had a magical quality for me. Tony Oliva, right fielder for the Minnesota Twins, was my hero, and while I grew up with very little opportunity to watch baseball, I still considered it my favorite sport.
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