Kip Selbach (1872)
Roy Thomas (1874)
Fatty Arbuckle (1887)
Ernie Shore (1891)
George Sisler (1893)
Jesus Alou (1942)
Mark Marquess (1947)
Garry Templeton (1956)
Bruce Hurst (1958)
Wilson Alvarez (1970)
Steve Karsay (1972)
Jose Valverde (1978)
Corey Hart (1982)
Chad Gaudin (1983)
Silent film comedian Fatty Arbuckle was the owner of the Vernon Tigers of the Pacific Coast League from about 1918-1921.
Mark Marquess is the longtime head baseball coach of Stanford.
No players with connections to the Twins were born on this day; however, we would like to wish a very happy birthday to Mom SBG.
Today is my mother's 70th birthday. She had a couple of her classmates die in the last year, so she's happy today, she told me, to be past 69.
Happy b-day to Mrs Butch!
70 is a nice round number - Happy Birthday to her.
longtime SacBee beat writer for the SF Giants, Nick Peters, died yesterday. He was an old-school guy who didn't seem to understand or appreciate all those new-fangled stats, but he was a pretty good writer, and definitely had "access."