The writer who used a baseball glove for a chair

Acclaimed American sportswriter Steve Rushin has been to the North and South Poles and most places in between. However, his love of the written word remains undimmed

Here’s a representative sample of my conversation with Steve Rushin, American journalist and author.

Early on in the chat Rushin told me he lived on the Connecticut-Massachusetts border, not far from Springfield, and I pointed out that I had often passed through Springfield one long-ago summer on the way to trespassing on a cousin’s hospitality in Worcester, which I felt was a bit nicer than Springfield— “Well, they put that on a road sign up there now,” said Rushin. “On the road outside the town: ‘Welcome to Worcester. A little bit nicer than Springfield’.”