How could I resist?
2012
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Loading... Jim Mutrie (1851)
Bill Bergen (1878)
Gene Desautels (1907)
Mel Parnell (1922)
Dave Rosenfield (1931)
Tom Cheek (1939)
Marcel Lachemann (1941)
Antonio Pulido (1951)
Ernie Whitt (1952)
Darrell May (1972)
Jonathan Lucroy (1986)
Jim Mutrie managed teams in New York for nine years. He has been called the founding father of baseball in New York City.
Catcher Bill Bergen spent eleven seasons in the majors. He appeared in 947 games and had 3,028 at-bats. His lifetime stats are .170/.194/.201. Everything you read about him says he was a tremendous defensive catcher, and one assumes he must have been.
Dave Rosenfield was the general manager of the Tidewater/Norfolk Tides for over forty-five years.
Tom Cheek was the voice of the Toronto Blue Jays from 1977-2004.
Antonio Pulido was a closer in the Mexican League for many years, getting 197 saves. He also had 70 saves in the Mexican Pacific League.
We would like to wish a happy birthday to rpz.
There do not appear to be any players with connections to the Minnesota Twins who were born on this day.
My drive to Minnesota starts in twenty days.
The Baseball Gods are a fickle lot. When they allow you to build a win streak, they give you gifts like the other team making a bone headed running mistake or make a bunch of defensive miscues that leads to runs. When they want you to lose, the reverse the role and your favorite team drops the line drive to center field that allowed the winning run to score. The 8th inning saw 4 Twins pitchers give up 4 runs and record 3 outs. Thats not good.
The Tommy Milone who pitched in Rochester showed up tonight going 7 innings and striking out 8. The only blemish was giving up a 2 run HR to Elvis Andrus (of all people).
The Twins had their chance to blow the game in the first inning as the first three batters reached base. But Wandy Rodrigue Only one scored. The Twins other run came on a Brian Dozier home run. Because all he does is score runs.
The Twins are now at 33-27. Lets hope the win total goes to the good on Saturday.
The Twins are in a bit of a tailspin at the moment losing 5 of the last 6 games. I still have faith that the ship will right itself and we will be back in first place in no time.
Wandy Rodriguez pitches for the Rangers. Tommy Milone for the Twins. Will we get "strike everyone out like in AAA" Tommy or "12 walks to 13 strikeouts in the Majors" Tommy . I hope its the AAA guy.
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It got late early for the Red Wings. A big inning sinks the Lookouts. The Miracle plays twenty innings and gets two wins. A three-pitcher shutout for the DSL Twins.
I pulled out some oldies earlier this week.
20 years old.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5vYTy2-X8s
Well, I never saw that before just now.
Joe Hornung (1857)
Sol White (1868)
Red Dooin (1879)
Matty McIntyre (1880)
Otto Knabe (1884)
Bill Foster (1904)
Dutch Rennert (1930)
Gerry Arrigo (1941)
Jim Strickland (1946)
Scott Aldred (1968)
Damon Buford (1970)
Ryan Klesko (1971)
Damon Hollins (1974)
Hideki Matsui (1974)
Sol White was a Negro League player, manager, and executive. He wrote the first history of African-American baseball, "Sol White's History of Colored Baseball", in 1907.
Bill Foster was a star pitcher in the Negro Leagues. He was the stepbrother of Rube Foster.
Dutch Rennert was a National League umpire from 1974-1992.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to Eric B. B.
Another of my "weekends" is gone and I can't pinpoint anything I did with it.
