By MONTE DUTTON Out at the plate (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I did something I haven’t done since COVID. (Knock on wood.) I went to a movie. I munched popcorn in a cool arena with an enormous screen and thunderous sound. My previous movie, in the late fall of 2019, was Ford v. Ferrari. …
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County Signs: To everything, there is a season
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. American Legion baseball is a slight step back. It doesn’t have the tension of high-school ball in the spring. It’s the summer. It’s supposed to be fun. It is. I’ve made quite the transition. For years, when I was away watching fast cars, I occasionally proclaimed that …
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County Signs: Devil Junior Legion beats heat
By MONTE DUTTON Owen Glenn singles to left (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It was hot. Before the Clinton Post 56 Junior American Legion baseball game on Wednesday – I was standing next to the table at the gate, watching Sean McCarthy take admission – it was possible, if I stood completely still, not to …
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Furmanology: It takes a village to raise a team
By MONTE DUTTON Carson Jones is one of 14 Paladins who have started (Furman photo). Click here. What challenges lie ahead. Furman’s Southern Conference champion football program has 14 players who have started, at least by recent calculations. Players who have started are not the same as returning starters. Duplicating the 10-3 records of the …
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County Signs: ‘In the summertime, when the weather is hot …’
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s great to have some time to write songs and edit fiction, but gosh, it feels good to get out in the heat and snap photos of cute kids tossing the old pigskins around. It’s almost impossible to take bad photos of kids. They were scattered around …
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County Signs: ‘Just racin’ (for a while) in the rain …’
By MONTE DUTTON Friday night lights (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I probably would not have watched the NASCAR Xfinity Series race from New Hampshire. I discovered the Sci Aps 200 was starting on rain tires, which had never been used on an oval. The rain was clearing out. The teams only ran treaded tires …
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County Signs: Post 56 encounters sparse resistance
By MONTE DUTTON Tanner Finley was untouchable for three innings. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It was great to get out. After the usual – writing, assembling, choosing photos, playing guitar, sipping coffee and half paying attention to what’s on the tube – I went off whistle-stopping late Thursday afternoon. First was watching the Junior …
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County Signs: Heroes grow absent
By MONTE DUTTON FCA Camp at PC (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I saw several games at Rickwood Field when the Birmingham Barons played there. The Barons have since moved twice and now play in a sparkling downtown stadium. The San Francisco Giants are playing the Saint Louis Cardinals there on Thursday night. One reason …
County Signs: Saying bye to the Say Hey Kid
By MONTE DUTTON Clinton Family YMCA executive director Harold Nichols surrounded by champions (YMCA photos) Click here. I’ve been thinking about this since I heard the news of Willie Howard Mays’ death on Tuesday night. I think three athletes have made me cry. On the way from Fenway Park back to New Hampshire on a …
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County Signs: Rory goes missing
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. What an eventful weekend. Bryson DeChambeau won the United States Open in a tournament that was close from start to finish. The winner was really Pinehurst No. 2, which may be the greatest golf course in the world. DeChambeau tried to lose it, and Rory McIlroy succeeded. …
