This heart just won’t quit.
The On The Heart Beat corner of SportsEdTV has penned essays of heartwarming and even heart-wrenching accounts of athletes, in most stages of life and play.
This edition recounts an interview we held with a still passionate sports octogenarian—that’s a story with eight decades and as many sides to it.
Invoking curmudgeon privilege our subject used “resolutions I should have made” to build the construct of our time together.
Invoking writer’s privilege we preface his chronology, observing this sports fiend continues to learn, compete and celebrate sports at marginally obsessive levels.
Edited for PG audiences and posterity, the occasionally sage, sometimes impudent offerings emanate from the bleeding sports heart of a lover of games played, seen, and heard since before Pearl Harbor.
“RESOLUTIONS HE SHOULD HAVE MADE”