All posts tagged Steve Brown

Takeover

This is from Steve Brown [sbrown@abqjournal.com]. Thank you.


When the Wisconsin University football team was scheduled to play the hapless, undersized squad from our small Midwestern teachers’ college (which shall mercifully remain nameless), everyone knew it was going to be a blowout.

And those bad-boy Badgers didn’t help things any by the way they crowed about the impending game. They were predicting scores like 70-0 or more. They wouldn’t break a sweat, they said, and they might even start their … Read the rest...

Journalist’s Pitch

I received this from Steve Brown. Very nice.


Not many of you realize that, just after graduating from NMSU, I had a short stint in the minor leagues as a pitcher (although, those of you who have been on the receiving end of one of my snowballs may have suspected that).

But, this one memory of an otherwise-unillustrious career does come to mind.

In my first start for the New Mexico Tumbleweeds (just barely semi-pro), the leadoff batter, Billy Rand, … Read the rest...