Happy Birthday–January 28

George Wright (1847)
Ducky Holmes (1869)
Bill Doak (1891)
Lyn Lary (1906)
Bob Muncrief (1916)
Pete Runnels (1928)
Harry Dunlop (1933)
Bill White (1934)
Fredi Gonzalez (1964)
Kevin Tolar (1971)
Jermaine Dye (1974)
Magglio Ordonez (1974)
Lyle Overbay (1977)

Harry Dunlop caught in the minors for fourteen years and was a coach for seventeen years.  He caught the minor league no-hitter in which Ron Necciai struck out twenty-seven batters and the back-to-back minor league no-hitters of Bill Bell.

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Caitlin Rose – Answer In One of These Bottles

after a slightly covert theme week, we move on. i'll give thanks again to AMR for turning me on to ms. rose. after falling in love with her feature album, i picked up her debut EP this weekend, and she's still awesome.

that's a pretty gibson right there too.

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Puck night! Wild -v- Blues 7pm

Minnesota: 2-2-0 (4 points) t2nd in the NW division, 9th in the Western Conference
St Louis: 4-1-9 (8 points) 2nd in the Central division, 4th in the West

TV: NBCSN, TSN2

It will probably be tough sledding for the Wild tonight. St Louis has only let in 9 goals (+10 goal diff.), while the Wild have only scored 9 times (-1)

Happy Birthday–January 27

Andy Lotshaw (1880)
Milt Gaston (1896)
Bibb Falk (1899)
Fred Heimach (1901)
John Lowenstein (1947)
Tom Trebelhorn (1948)
Eric Wedge (1968)
Phil Plantier (1969)
Angel Berroa (1980)
Gavin Floyd (1983)

Andy Lotshaw had a thirteen-year minor league career as an outfielder/first baseman, leading his league in triples four times and in home runs five times.  He also played professional basketball.  He then became the trainer for the Chicago Cubs from 1922-1952.

There do not appear to be any players with connections to the Minnesota Twins born on this day.