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The death of Jim Klobuchar on Wednesday brought back memories of the 1960s Star Tribune sports department, fully alive and fighting for every inch of space.

Reusse: First Klobuchar conquered Sid, then came bigger mountains May 13, 2021 — 12:00pm Text size Copy shortlink: There are a number of things to cite on the state of newspapers in the 1960s to explain the taut relationship that existed between Sid Hartman and Jim Klobuchar, two giants of Minneapolis media. Sid died last October at age 100. Klobuchar died on Wednesday at age 93. This occurred on the same day that Jerry Burns, among the Vikings' legends chronicled by Klobuchar, died at 94. I was 17 when first entering t...

Jim Klobuchar, longtime Star Tribune columnist and adventurer, dies at 93 The father of Sen. Amy Klobuchar spent more than four decades in journalism.  May 12, 2021 — 2:27pm Text size Copy shortlink: Jim Klobuchar, an intrepid son of the Iron Range who with grace and puckish wit chronicled the lives of ordinary and fabled Minnesotans as a longtime columnist for the Star Tribune, died Wednesday at the Emerald Crest care facility in Burnsville. He was 93. From 1961, when he left the Associated Press to work ...

Copy shortlink: Duane Blaska, a member of the only two Gophers football teams to play in the Rose Bowl, died Monday from complications of cancer. Blaska, from Anoka, was 79. After backing up Sandy Stephens on the 1960 and '61 teams that advanced to the Rose Bowl, Blaska became the starting quarterback for the Gophers in 1962. A loss to Wisconsin in the 1962 season finale prevented the Gophers from a third consecutive trip to the Rose Bowl. Before the 1962 season, coach Murray Warmath told the Minneapolis Tribune that one of the keys to the Gophers' success was how Blas...

The Twins have played 60 seasons in our midst and the personnel decision among batters that holds No. 1 status for a blunder came on Dec. 16, 2002, at baseball's winter meetings in Nashville. That was the day of the Rule 5 draft. The Twins made room on the 40-player roster for a selection by releasing David Ortiz. They selected infielder Jose Morban from Texas. He was waived, wound up in Baltimore in 2003, and hit two home runs in what became a career total of 71 at-bats. Ortiz was signed by Boston on the cheap, was batting .200 after a month of the 2003 season, then started seeing the ball b...