The Games We Play

  • Updated: May 9, 2008 - 1:33 PM

Francis. Kirby. Lake Placid. Lindsay. You’re four-for-four now, right? OK, sports fans: Kapp. Patty. Mikan. Edgerton. A little tougher? Such is the range of sports lore in Minnesota, where an upstart small town basketball team can still remain a feel-good story after 50 years, where people still quote Joe Kapp’s line about Santa Claus, where the heartbreak of Super Bowls mingles with the euphoria of World Series. And where the busiest places on summer afternoons are the ball diamonds and soccer fields of a thousand towns.

  • share

    email

  • share

    email

ADVERTISEMENT

 
Close