| It was almost like they'd just gotten off the third shift at G. M. Players from all the visiting teams came into the Lindell A. C., and there wasn't all this fawning. |
| His mother, Roxanne, worked at the Lindell A. C. for 20 years, and Foster, now 53, worked there as a cook while attending Cass Tech, then tended bar during college. |
| Lindell was a pitcher turned outfielder turned knuckleballer who continually reinvented himself. |
| Each June he moved his family from the roomy brick parsonage on Lindell Boulevard to an abandoned Vermont farmhouse he had bought in the nineteen-thirties for less than five hundred dollars. |
| I kept the baseball Lindell gave me for about forty years, finally losing it when my house was robbed, in the mid-nineteen-eighties. |
