About to embark on his first playoff run, Phillies pinch-hitter Mike Sweeney contemplates good—but losing—times back in Kansas City, and a second start as a flyfishing guide in Montana. “Usually by now, Sweeney is flyfishing or making plans to go flyfishing. Montana is gorgeous this time of year. Sometimes, Sweeney thinks he’ll spend his retirement as a flyfishing guide. It’s a hobby he learned in large part because he never had any baseball games in October. ‘As much as I love fly fishing,’ he says, ‘this is a lot more exciting to be focused on baseball still.’”Source Link
Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.