The St. Louis Cardinals' route to this year's World Series, where they face the Texas Rangers, is helping the Missouricity get through difficult economic times.
The high-powered storms arrived Tuesday night and early Wednesday, just days after a massive tornado tore up the southwest Missouricity of Joplin and killed 122 people.
Although Mr Trillin graduated from Yale University (his father encouraged him to go east having read Owen Johnson's 1911 tale, "Stover at Yale"), he was brought up in Kansas City, Missouri.