Greg Larson: Voice of the Minnesota Twins?
I spent last summer at my family's cabin in northern Minnesota. It was just me and my dad hiding from COVID.
We'd spend the days working inside. Then, at 5pm every day, we'd grab our mitts and play catch.
In the evenings, as we ate dinner, the Twins games played in the background on TV.
Me and my dad playing catch at the cabin.
The cabin. Playing catch. The Twins. It was all the epitome of Minnesota summer.
Then one evening we got rained out. No game of catch at 5pm. The Twins, who played just a few hours south in Minneapolis, got rained out too.
My dad went for a rainy evening drive since the game wasn't on. When he came back, he said the Twins radio station did something interesting during the rain delay:
They played a pre-recorded interview with a baseball book author in lieu of the game broadcast.
He said, "Now how do we get you on there talking about Clubbie?"
I didn't know. Clubbie wouldn't come out for nearly a year. Being interviewed on Twins radio felt like an ethereal fantasy. As a teenager, I used to listen to games on the radio with my dad, usually on our drives up to that same cabin. Long before they aired every game on TV, all we had was the radio broadcast.
When my dad asked the question, only about 20 people in the whole world knew about Clubbie. I mean, hell--I was still making manuscript edits with my publisher. But I knew my publication date would be here before I knew it.
Sure enough, here we are in May 2021. Time has flown by in some ways, and dragged on in others.
A ton of amazing things have happened with the book since it published in April, including a few things that happened last week.
First, the Los Angeles Times gave Clubbie a really nice blurb in the sports section.
Second, I got an interview request through my website. It was from Kris Atteberry with Minnesota Twins radio...
He wanted to interview me for one of their baseball book author interviews they play during rain delays. The same type of interview my dad asked me about last summer at the cabin.
The Contraction Kids: My heroes growing up.
I gotta tell ya, it was an incredible feeling. Just imagine it! You're being interviewed on the same radio station that broadcast your favorite baseball team growing up.
I was so grateful for the opportunity.
Now comes the strange part...
I don't know when they'll play the interview. After all, nobody knows when a rain delay will come. But I expect there will be a rainy summer evening with my dad in the near future. We'll be sitting in the cabin basement waiting for the storm to pass. We'll have the radio broadcast playing in the background to pass time.
Then, without warning or expectation, we'll hear the voice of Kris Atteberry, followed almost miraculously by the most shocking and recognizable voice I could imagine:
My own.
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