About the author
Minnesota's Jim Thielman has worked at newspapers in Minnesota and
Florida. Thielman covered the Minnesota Twins from 1977 until 1993 and also
reported from events such as the National Football Conference Championship, the
British and U.S. Opens, Rose Bowl, Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game,
post-season playoffs and World Series.
The internationally published freelance writer's partial but eclectic list
of topics includes halal, transfer pricing, window washers, Oberammergau, wood
preservation, mycotoxins, civil war statues, bird flu, and
his father's decrescendo.
He is amused that he was once a card-carrying member of the National Science
Writers Association, and counts interviewing Muhammad Ali at the top of
his list of famous folks he has met.
"The minute he walked into the room there was an aura that skittered
over the rooftop, clattered down the drainpipe and jiggled around your shoes
like Jell-O, if you'll pardon the cliche.
"Walter Payton? Sandy Koufax? John Wooden? Payne Stewart? I
never met anyone else who projected whatever it was Ali had."
Thielman's post-journalism jobs have been communications positions with the
Minnesota House of Representatives, University of Minnesota, Cargill
Incorporated, General Mills Incorporated, a Fortune 500 technology company, and
a law firm.
He saw his
first
Major League Baseball game in 1965, and still goes to the batting cage
twice a week to hit against the college machine.
He says there is no way in hell that thing is throwing anywhere near as high
as the posted 75 mph.
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