John Rosengren
By John Rosengren
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Culture Why Hank Greenberg Never Became a New York Yankee
Hall of Fame baseball player Hank Greenberg grew up in the shadow of Yankee Stadium yet never played for his hometown Yankees. Why not? The Yankees did in fact pursue the young prospect. Paul Krichell, the scout famous for discovering Lou Gehrig, recognized another raw talent in Greenberg and figured — as the New York…
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Film & TV How Jan Selby Found Peace in Documentaries
It’s 10 a.m. on a Friday morning, and Jan Selby finally slows down for breakfast. The 56-year-old, Minnesota-based filmmaker stops into the Starbucks across the street from her St. Paul office for an egg sandwich and coffee. “I’ve taken on a little much,” she says. “Between running a company and being involved in three major…
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Culture For Charles Aaron, It’s All About the Bikes
Charles Aaron grew up in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, the same Minneapolis suburb that spawned Thomas Friedman, Al Franken and the Coen brothers, only Aaron had different ambitions: He wanted to run a professional bike team. His father gave him a Schwinn 10-speed for his bar mitzvah, which Aaron began racing, at first holding his…
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Music How Adam Levy Channels His Grief Through Music
At a coffee shop in northeast Minneapolis, a short walk from his home, Adam Levy turns over his left forearm to show the spider tattoo that his son Daniel designed. It’s from the day he and Daniel got tattoos together, a father-son outing that left him with this souvenir. Levy is the front man for…
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