ST. PETERSBURG — Kevin Cash lost it. Matt Quatraro was equally upset when then-Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman threw a 100 mph fastball behind the head of Mike Brosseau during a 2020 game. The Rays manager let his anger get the best of him that night in New York, saying he had “a stable of guys who throw 98.” Quatraro, Cash’s bench coach at the time, held his tongue in public. He kept the team .
Robert Hesse’s life story reads like a screenplay, overcoming a rough childhood in St. Pete filled with abuse and incarceration to appear on the hit reality cooking show “Hell’s Kitchen."
In the last few months, the Jack Kerouac House of St. Petersburg Inc., the nonprofit behind the Kerouac residence, has started booking daytime tours, evening stays and special events to raise funds for the group’s preservation mission. But according to Ken Burchenal, who joined forces with the nonprofit when he and his wife bought the Florida home in 2020, being a Kerouac fan is not a requirement. “We don’t want this to be just an homage to Jack Kerouac,” he said. We’re really interested in not only all of the Beats, but American counterculture.”