Wednesday, March 30, 2022
My condolences to Jerry's family. His passing has hit me like a ton of bricks. It has also got me to reflect again on growing up in a great neighborhood with the Berglund's, Hughes', Kalm's, Andersons, Curtis, Tobolaski's and others. We never lacked for someone to play ball with or start a new 'Strat' league. Age did not matter. Everyone was included. Jerry and I were a year apart. Our first girlfriend's were best friends so we spent a lot of time together for over a year. I remember going to Big Lake to meet the girls and their families for 'lake' fun and food. We rode with Jan's brother who liked fast cars he was doing 100 mph on BL Road. Scared? Yes. But not nearly as scared as we were to have to take our shirts off in front of the girls to go swimming.
A lot of people don't know Jerry was the first free agent in the neighborhood. Leaving the neighborhood based Cloquet Merchants softball team to play for Cloquet Transit. Jerry, the same but different from big brother Mike and just as influential on my growing up in the Pine River neighborhood
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