GW
@GavinWoltjer
PRPL Director. Professor. Baseball & sport & food & military & cultural & business histories. Husband & father. Sustainable cities. USD, SDSM&T, OU, Harvard.
It’s a beautiful day to be argumentative. Let’s see how many of these I agree with…
Beef price discourse and home vs dining out!? Wish my book was out already since both beef prices and the unwaged labor of home cooking are core components of my argument.
when people say that one meal of at home cooking costs something like $60 dollars i genuinely wish they’d explain what they’re cooking because this is just impossible
"I am playing this late season televised day game today, even though I just played a late night extra innings game. I owe it to the fans in stands, on TV, and my team…” - Gary Carter (h/t @GaryCarterKid)
I’ve been spending most of my reading time the past few months with nonfiction. Time to reconnect with @ucrosspop25. CJ never disappoints.
If you see bison on the road, be patient and stay in your vehicle. Wait for them to move, and do not honk your horn. That will only make them go slower. A bison’s level of aggressiveness, both physical and passive, is legendary.
Finished. A fine #biography & reporting of Caitlin Clark and her impact on women’s basketball. @cbrennansports has perfectly captured Clark’s rookie season in all of its good, bad, ugly moments. Cc: @WNBA
POV: You’re about to hear Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne
Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Redd Foxx. The Murderer’s Row of celebrity softball teams.
1909 Saturday Evening Post, cover illustration by legendary artist J. C. Leyendecker. 1915 Stall & Dean Spring & Summer Catalog, artist unknown.
This project has been a long time in the making. Grateful to be a small part of it, and grateful for @jlauck1941’s tireless work reviving and restoring the study of Midwestern history.
It's publication day for "Wilder Weather"! You can order your copy online at sdhspress.com/books/wilder-w…. Also, you can watch a live interview with the author, Barbara Boustead, about "Wilder Weather" by tuning in to The Weather Channel at 9:40 a.m. CT tomorrow, June 9!
"Wilder Weather" is available now! You can order this fascinating book on the SDHS Press website or through your favorite bookseller. An excerpt from the book is featured on the South Dakota Searchlight website, which you can read here: southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/07/09/in-…
In the new Pioneer Girl Project blog post, Nancy Tystad Koupal reminisces about her family's Fourth of July gatherings during her childhood, and how they compared with those that Laura Ingalls Wilder experienced. Read here: pioneergirlproject.org/2025/07/03/fam…
The Summer 2025 issue of “South Dakota History” is out now! This special issue, titled “The Train is Coming,” illuminates the story of the 1968 Victory Special, the last campaign train to whistle-stop its way across South Dakota. Order online at sdhspress.com/journal/south-….