Joshua Jones, the young man in this video, doesn’t say anything. He can’t speak, a result of cancer.
Before a Dodger game Sunday night, the boy’s father told a Dodger coach that the boy’s favorite player is Matt Kemp. And that was that.
Kemp made the final out of the game and could’ve headed for the clubhouse. But he didn’t.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins