Kirby

I was surprised at how I reacted this morning when I heard that Kirby Puckett recently died of a stroke. As a young child I remember going to Twins games with my dad and cheering on Kirby-even though it was from a great distance. Even as I try this morning, I can't seem to come up with any other names of players from the Twins from that same great era. Kirby was somehow a "hero"-and yet he was a man, destined to die along with the rest of us. There is certainly sorrow at seeing the past fade away in so many different ways-whether legendary sprots figures dying or children that I babysat heading to college and then graduating.