Harmon Killebrew

The name Harmon Killebrew won't register with most people reading this blog, unless you were a baseball fan in the 1960s.

Harmon played for the Washington Senators that later became the Minnesota Twins. He hailed from the small town of Payette, Idaho, not to far from where I grew up in Boise.

Around here he was a legend, wow, a guy from Idaho playing pro baseball, for us spud peelers that was a pretty big deal. Just like Jerry Kramer another Idaho playing for Green Bay.

Harmon is in his 70s now living in Arizona and he is sick. He has been diagnosed with a form of throat cancer. It is sad for me to see this part of life, my childhood heroes getting old and getting sick. Like most I still tend to think of them as they were, young and invincible.

I would ask those reading this blog to take a moment and say a prayer for Harmon Kellebrew. He was and is always a class act and a gentlemen. I met him once at an autograph singing back in the early 60s he could not have been more gracious.

In his day the heroes were heroes on the field and you seldom heard of scandals like you do in today's sports world.

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