What’s With The Snowman?
It started out simply enough: I liked Willie Stargell, the captain and left fielder turned first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He wore #8, I wore #8. It stuck for 30 years, and then my son started wearing number 8. Once I discovered golf, and began picking up my ball after 8 strokes, the “snowman” wasn’t just my number but also a nickname for what I carded on most holes. Throw in a few holiday parties where I got to play Frosty the Snowman, a general love of building snowmen, and an affinity for the snowmen riff in Bill Watterston’s “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip, and it’s a lifestyle.
The Aggressive Snowman Group is my alter-ego. The name is actually a juxtaposition of the nickname (snowman) and “aggressive” in-line skating. I needed a name for the skate wear t-shirts I had kicking around, and so the Aggressive Snowman Group became my latest pseudo-company for junk mail delivery.
