Where I grew up, in Minnetonka, Minnesota, we took our baseball pretty seriously. My Little League team sometimes played at Bennett Field, which had a two story clubhouse behind home plate. A high school student would sit upstairs with a PA system and call the action. It happened that both pitchers on my team were named David Jensen, which would sometimes result in the following:
"Now pitching for David Jensen, David Jen...Oh, never mind."
My old pal from Oberlin, Moshe Silver, decided to look me up twenty years after the fact. From NYC he called every one of the 37 David C Jensens in the Minneapolis phone directory and came up empty. I'd moved to Saint Paul.
These memories came back to me this morning when I read the line score from last night's Monday Night Football. Ryan Fitzpatrick threw two interceptions, both of them to Fitzpatrick. Now Ryan Fitzpatrick is a notoriously mercurial quarterback, there's a good Ryan and a bad Ryan, but I couldn't figure out how even he would be able to pull off such a stunt. Of course he had some help, courtesy of opposing safety Minkah Fitzpatrick, who hauled down both errant tosses. Which got me to wondering: has any other QB in NFL history had thrown multiple interceptions, in a single game, to a defender with his own surname?
I didn't watch the game, and this is a factoid which might have been dredged up by ESPN research for the benefit of the play-by-play announcers. In which case, satisfying my curiosity should be easy.
Nor could I remember the name of Bennett Field, but a quick search of Google Maps shows that it's still there, fifty-five years since I last took the mound.
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