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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Minor Details: Games of 7/30
Rochester comes back to win its seventh straight. Sano hits a game-winner for the Rock Cats. Josh Burris leads the E-Twins to victory.
Leo Kottke & Chet Atkins – Sleepwalk
A little bit of minnesota in the intro, home sick again. Is this duet week? I don't know.
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Loading... July 31, 2013: Trade Deadline
Peavy's out of the division! He's a Sawk now, though. So, are any interesting subtractions for the Twins imminent? As long as we don't see any Matt Lawton for Rick Reed type things, I'm good.
Happy Birthday–July 31
Joe Sugden (1870)
Laughing Larry Doyle (1886)
Art Nehf (1892)
Allen Russell (1893)
Elmer Riddle (1914)
Curt Gowdy (1919)
Hank Bauer (1922)
Vic Davalillo (1936)
John Vukovich (1947)
Dave Dombrowski (1956)
Leon Durham (1957)
Mike Bielecki (1959)
Scott Bankhead (1963)
Ted Barrett (1965)
Gabe Kapler (1975)
Rene Rivera (1983)
Hall of Fame broadcaster Curt Gowdy was the voice of the NBC Game of the Week from 1965-1975.
Dave Dombrowski has been the general manager of the Montreal Expos/Florida Marlins and of the Detroit Tigers.
Ted Barrett has been a major league umpire since 1994.
2013 Game 103: KC George Alexanders vs. MN Emily & Marens
While none of us have had a lot of recent experience seeing the Royals atop the Twins in the standings, there was a time when the more wrinkled and bent among us did. Back when pant-legs were still short and stirrup socks were long, when free agency and the designated hitter rule were busy destroying the game as we knew it, back before expansion and realignment and wild cards made a mockery of what winning a pennant was all about, and when lawns were gloriously free of trespassers, the Kansas City Royals were an elite ball club in the seven-team American League West, perennial contenders who made it to the more exclusive playoffs seven times between 1976 and 1985 and won the World Series in the final year of that stretch. (Suck on that sentence, Mr. Faulkner.) The Royals rosters back in those days were a litany of greats -- George Brett, Steve Balboni, Frank White, Hal McRae, Bret Saberhagen, Dan Quisenberry and Charlie Liebrandt to name a few. But then the team fell on hard times.
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Players of the Week
A day late. This is for the week ended July 28.
Minor Details: Games of 7/29
P. J. Walters and Oswaldo Arcia lead the Red Wings into first place. Matt Tomshaw shines for Fort Myers. Brian Navarreto's grand slam leads the GCL Twins to victory.
July 30, 2013: Cockroaches
There had to be a downside to this beautiful house we're sitting.
Happy Birthday–July 30
Casey Stengel (1890)
Frankie Pytlak (1908)
Tony Lucadello (1912)
Joe Coleman (1922)
Paul Minner (1923)
Joe Nuxhall (1928)
Gus Triandos (1930)
Bud Selig (1934)
Bob Barton (1941)
Pat Kelly (1944)
Doug Rader (1944)
Jim Spencer (1946)
Ellis Valentine (1954)
Clint Hurdle (1957)
Steve Trout (1957)
Scott Fletcher (1958)
Tom Pagnozzi (1962)
Scott Diamond (1986)
Tony Lucadello was a major league scout for forty-eight years.
Allan Huber "Bud" Selig has been the commissioner of baseball since 1992.