as a kid I followed baseball

For months in 1987 the baseball media would not stop talking about where White Sox pitcher Floyd Bannister would end up? Would he stay with the Sox? Be traded to the Yankees? Implicate Oliver North in Iran Contra? Finally Bannister was traded and I rushed to tell my father, who replied: “Nobody cares about Floyd Bannister.”

Mark Buherle is this era’s Floyd Bannister.