Before he could make it in safely to one dream profession, Jeremy Rutherford, St. Louis Blues writer for The Athletic, had to be thrown out of another.
Once upon a time, Rutherford’s ambition was to play baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals. But a single up the middle crystallized a painful reality for the young man.
“I knew at a young age that I wanted to be a sportswriter, but first I was a St. Louis kid that wanted to be a Cardinal. I was 10 or 12 years old, and I got a base hit up the middle, out to center field,” Rutherford recalled.