Share
Other Voices
Jason Brinkman, Albany Dutchmen baseball
Jason Brinkman, who grew up in Guilderland, is the general manager and vice president of the Albany Dutchmen, one of 16 teams throughout New York State in the Perfect Game Baseball League. After being closed out last summer by pandemic restrictions, the team is moving to Dutchmen Field at Roger Keenholts Park in Guilderland this season. Brinkman, in this week’s podcast, calls the ballpark, with lights for night games and new chair-back seating as well as picnic areas, “a hidden gem tucked away.” The Dutchmen’s home opener is Saturday, June 5. College players from across the country — including from Vanderbilt, Louisville and Old Miss — converge for a summer season “with the hopes and dreams of … being drafted by Major League Baseball,” said Brinkman. The team is looking for local families to host players — with information at dutchmenbaseball.com. All that’s needed is a spare bed, said Brinkman, and the bonds can last a lifetime. Brinkman thinks a sense of normalcy will return with the boys of summer. He said, “I’m thrilled to have baseball back.”
More episodes
View all episodes
Daughter and mother coach dragon-boat paddlers
31:33|Anna Judge and Louisa Matthew realize they live in an ageist and sexist society — but, with generous spirits, they are paddling against the current. The mother-daughter duo together coach a crew of dragon boat paddlers. Matthew, the mother, is an art professor at Union College. Judge, her daughter, is a certified personal trainer who led her mother into the sport. “A dragon boat is a 40-foot long, very narrow racing boat,” explains Matthew in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “That became standardized in the 20th Century but it’s based on a thousands-year-old Chinese tradition of racing the big rivers in China.” A dragon boat has 20 paddlers, two to a seat, with a person in the stern who steers and a person in the bow signaling directions, traditionally by drumming. “It’s the national sport of China,” said Judge “so it’s quite big in Asia and has subsequently spread to Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.” It came to the United States through Canada, she said, citing the work of a doctor in British Columbia who changed prevailing medical opinion on exercise for breast-cancer survivors.
Angelica Sofia Parker and Elca Hubbard prepare for a pageant while supporting each other
27:03|https://altamontenterprise.com/07242023/angelica-sofia-parker-and-elca-hubbard-prepare-pageant-while-supporting-each-other
