About the author
Minnesota's Jim Thielman has worked at newspapers in Minnesota and
Florida. He covered the Minnesota Twins from 1977 until 1993. During his
sports writing career, he 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.
Now an internationally published freelance writer, his 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.
Because he is indifferent at best to the Linnaean System of Taxonomic Classification, Thielman
is amused that he was once a card-carrying member of the National Science
Writers Association.
Thielman 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 large 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.
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