A brilliant outing for Alex Wimmers. Matt Guerrier does well in his season debut. A ninth-inning comeback for Cedar Rapids.
Monthly Archives: April 2014
WGOM Half-Baked Hall: 1891-1893 Election Results
The second election cycle sparked less interest than the first go-round, though we did wind up with 23 voters, including two new voters (FTLT and UncleWalt, welcome!). I understand it was a crazy few weeks for a lot of you, and I understand there could be some changes to how we do this to make the experience more fun for everybody.
Personally, I found 30 people on the ballot to be a bit overwhelming, especially since I didn't just copy/paste my votes from last time. It is definitely harder to judge 19th century players, which could be part of the problem. While some people dropped off after this ballot, a lot of them remain, and I fear they could remain indefinitely. For example, some people want Candy Cummings in for inventing the curveball. Some don't think that's HOF worthy. Is that ever going to change? Will he be stuck around 30% forever? Or will it just take more discussion to see which way that needle ticks?
It appears there was a glitch with the ballot where people who wanted to abstain weren't allowed to do so (except bhiggum, who abstained before the glitch occurred). I'll make sure to fix this for the next ballot.
Okay, onto the results. Did we elect anybody this go round?
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April 15, 2014: Yeah I’m the Taxman
Yeeeeeaeaaaaah I'm the taxmaaaaaaaan.
Happy Birthday–April 15
Jim Creighton (1841)
Ed Abbaticchio (1877)
Ed Bailey (1931)
Willie Davis (1940)
Ted Sizemore (1945)
Jeromy Burnitz (1969)
Milton Bradley (1978)
John Danks (1985)
Jim Creighton was a star pitcher from 1857-1862, before the National League was created. He passed away from a ruptured hernia in 1862 at the age of twenty-one.
Until Henry Aaron came along, Ed Abbaticchio held the “first in the alphabet” record.
There do not appear to be any major league players with connections to the Minnesota Twins born on this day.
Johnny Cash – After Taxes
Good luck, citizens.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RWEZ8ddexo
1978
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Minor Details: Games of April 13
New Britain finally gets some good pitching. Fort Myers gets almost no hitting. A good outing by Felix Jorge.
Game Recap #12: Twins Baseball 4, Royals Baseball 3
It's a strange game, this baseball.
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Saint Paul & The Broken Bones – Don’t Mean A Thing
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gigZGc4KucE
I totally didn't expect that voice from this dude.
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April 14, 2014: Almost There
The artist for my game has nearly finished his end of things, and the game isn't far from its release. It's allllll happeniiiiiiing
Happy Birthday–April 14
Cannonball Redding (1890)
Marvin Miller (1917)
Gordon Gillespie (1926)
Don Mueller (1927)
Marty Keough (1934)
Pete Rose (1941)
Joe Lahoud (1947)
Ron Schueler (1948)
Greg Maddux (1966)
David Justice (1966)
Greg Myers (1966)
Mike Trombley (1967)
Brad Ausmus (1969)
Steve Avery (1970)
Gregg Zaun (1971)
Kyle Farnsworth (1976)
Cannonball Redding was a star pitcher in the Negro Leagues.
Marvin Miller was the head of the Major League Baseball Players association from 1966-1983.
Gordon Gillespie holds the record for most wins by a college baseball coach.
It must be kind of a bummer for a big league ballplayer to not only not be the best player born on the day and year he was born, but to not even be the best player with his first name born on the day and year he was born.