Musings - on the editor's mind

OK old-timers. Here is the most inside of insider baseball. What’s the question to this answer: Curt Flood.

Give up? Here’s the question: What pioneering, heroic, personally sacrificing-his-career sports star does Colin Kaepernick take after?

I was crazy about sports as a kid and came of age as the 1970s emerged from the tumultuous decade of the 1960s. When I first followed sports, players wore narrow ties and said “Sir’ and “Ma’am” There was no irony and almost no nodding and winking when players, professional and college, were termed All Americans. A much more innocent time, it was.

All of a...