Longtime Post-Dispatch and Hall of Fame baseball writer Rick Hummel has been on the media version of the disabled list, as he is recovering from a compression fracture of a vertebra as well as a nerve ailment in his right leg.
“I’m all right,” Hummel said Thursday. “The leg’s a little bit sore, but I’m coming along.”
He was injured Feb. 3 after giving a speech in his hometown of Quincy, Ill.
“One of the guys asked me to meet him for a drink afterward,” Hummel said. “I said, ‘I don’t drink anymore,’ but I went out and met him and a friend of his at a bar/restaurant.