Whicker: Solution to statues is to quit building them

The path between Calvin Griffith’s mind and his voice was always treacherous.
In 1982, he proclaimed that Minnesota center fielder Jim Eisenreich was “doomed to be a superstar.” When someone asked Griffith about the nature of his knee surgery, he replied, “They took out the cartridge.”
Irrigate that path with alcohol and you get the Waseca Lions Club meeting of 1978.
Unsolicited, the Twins’ owner told the group that his family moved the Washington Senators to