My dad's house features nothing newer than probably about 1995. Small-town life, man.
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Happy Birthday–March 4
Red Murray (1884)
Jeff Pfeffer (1888)
Dazzy Vance (1891)
Lefty O'Doul (1897)
Buck Canel (1906)
Clyde McCullough (1917)
Mel Queen (1918)
Leo Righetti (1925)
Cass Michaels (1926)
Bob Johnson (1936)
Jack Fischer (1939)
Danny Frisella (1946)
Tom Grieve (1948)
Harry Saferight (1949)
Sam Perlozzo (1951)
Mark Wagner (1954)
Jeff Dedmon (1960)
Tom Lampkin (1964)
Giovanni Carrera (1968)
Dave Stevens (1970)
Mark Wegner (1972)
Born in Argentina, Buck Canel broadcast major league baseball to Latin America for over four decades, calling forty-two World Series.
The father of Dave Righetti, Leo Righetti played in the minors for twelve years, eight of them in AAA.
Harry Saferight made it to the majors with Pittsburgh in 1979, but did not appear in a game. He got to the on-deck circle three times, but each time the last out was made before he had a chance to bat.
St. Paul native Mark Wegner has been a major league umpire since 1998.
Circuit Des Yeux – Acarina
Here's a soothing lullabye from Ms. Haley Fohr.
I'm drifting off right now...
24 May 2014
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1965 Rewind: Game One Hundred Forty-nine
WASHINGTON 2, MINNESOTA 1 IN MINNESOTA (10 INNINGS)
Date: Friday, September 17.
Batting stars: Don Mincher was 1-for-3 with a walk and an RBI. Earl Battey was 1-for-3 with a walk. Joe Nossek was 1-for-4 with a double.
Pitching star: Camilo Pascual struck out thirteen in nine innings, giving up one run on five hits and three walks.
Opposition stars: Pete Richert pitched nine innings, giving up one run on five hits and four walks with seven strikeouts. Fred Valentine was 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs. Frank Howard was 1-for-3 with a walk and an RBI.
The game: The Senators opened the scoring in the third when Valentine walked, went to second on a ground out, took third on a wild pitch, and scored on Howard's single. The Twins had only three hits through five innings, but in the sixth a pair of two-out walks were followed by a Mincher single to tie it 1-1. In the tenth, Don Lock's two-out single brought Valentine home with the go-ahead run. Zoilo Versalles opened the bottom of the tenth with a walk and was bunted to second, but a pair of fly outs ended the game.
Of note: Versalles was 0-for-4 with a walk. Rich Rollins was 1-for-4. Jimmie Hall was 0-for-3. Bob Allison was 0-for-4 with a walk and a run.
Record: The loss made the Twins 94-55. Chicago won, cutting the Twins' lead to 9.5 games.
Notes: Nossek played center and Hall moved to right, giving Tony Oliva a day off. Oliva was used as a pinch-hitter and was 0-for-1, dropping his average to .317...I remember Pete Richert as a fine relief pitcher for Baltimore, but before that he had a few good years as a starter, mostly with Washington. He made the all-star team as a starter twice, in 1965 and 1966. 1965 was his best year, as he was 15-12, 2.60, 1.19 WHIP.
March 3, 2016: We’re Going to Win the West!
Thus quipped my brother when he saw that K-Mart was gone.
Happy Birthday–March 3
John Montgomery Ward (1860)
Wee Willie Keeler (1872)
Ed Phelps (1879)
Tetsuya Yoneda (1938)
Paul Schaal (1943)
Rick Reed (1950)
Chuck Cary (1960)
Neal Heaton (1960)
Marvin Hudson (1964)
Scott Radinsky (1968)
Mike Romano (1972)
Matt Diaz (1978)
Jorge Julio (1979)
Tetsuya Yoneda is the second-winningest pitcher in Japanese professional baseball with 350 victories.
The Rick Reed whose birthday is today is the major league umpire since 1979, not the ex-Twin.
Marvin Hudson has been a major league umpire from 1979-2009.
Joanna Newsom – Leaving The City
It's been far too long since we've played Ms. Newsom.
2015
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March 2, 2016: OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER
Play ball!
1965 Rewind: Game One Hundred Forty-eight
MINNESOTA 7, KANSAS CITY 5 IN MINNESOTA
Date: Wednesday, September 15.
Batting stars: Zoilo Versalles was 2-for-5 with a double, scoring twice. Bob Allison was 1-for-2 with two RBIs. Don Mincher was 0-for-2 with two walks and a run.
Pitching star: Bill Pleis pitched a scoreless inning with one strikeout.
Opposition stars: Billy Bryan was 2-for-4 with a home run (his thirteenth) and a double. Ken Harrelson was 1-for-4 with a home run (his twenty-first) and a walk. Larry Stahl was 1-for-4 with a home run, his third.
The game: Each team scored once in the first. It stayed 1-1 until the fourth, when Earl Battey had an RBI single to put the Twins in the lead. In the fifth, Versalles had a run-scoring single-plus-error and Allison had a two-run single to make it 5-1 Twins. Homers by Harrelson and Stahl cut the lead to 5-3 in the sixth, and the Athletics scored twice in the eighth on Bryan's homer and a run-scoring single by Mike Hershberger to tie it at five. In the ninth the Twins took the lead back on RBI singles by Ted Uhlaender and Joe Nossek. Kansas City got a man on by error with two out in the bottom of the ninth, but that was as close as they would come.
Of note: Sandy Valdespino was 0-for-4. Tony Oliva was 1-for-1 with an RBI. Jimmie Hall was 0-for-4 with a run. Jim Perry pitched 5.2 innings, giving up three runs on five hits and four walks with two strikeouts.
Record: The Twins made it seven in a row with the win and improved their record to 94-54. Baltimore won and Chicago split a doubleheader, so the Orioles moved into sole possession of second place, ten games back.
Notes: Oliva raised his average back to .318. He was removed for a pinch-runner in the fourth inning following a single. He perhaps suffered a minor injury, because he would not start again for nearly a week. He was replaced by Allison, whose place in the starting lineup had been taken by Valdespino...Larry Stahl is another guy who played for quite a while without doing a whole lot. An outfielder, he played in all or part of ten major league seasons, from 1964-73. His high in games played was 119 and his high in at-bats was 312, both in 1966. Other than 1964, when he had only 46 at-bats, he only once hit over .250 (.253), only three times had an OBP over .300 (the high was .315), and only once had an OPS over .660 (.709 in 1971). It's interesting to see how some guys tear up AAA and can't get a chance in the majors, and other guys play in the majors for years without really doing much of anything. As has been observed before, no one ever promised that life or baseball would be fair.
Happy Birthday–March 2
Horace Fogel (1861)
Moe Berg (1902)
Woody English (1906)
Jack Knott (1907)
Mel Ott (1909)
Mort Cooper (1913)
Jim Konstanty (1917)
Jim Nettles (1947)
Pete Broberg (1950)
Larry Wolfe (1953)
Terry Steinbach (1962)
Ron Gant (1965)
Jay Gibbons (1977)
Glen Perkins (1983)
Horace Fogel was a sportswriter who became manager of the New York Giants in 1902. His time as Giants manager is best remembered for his attempt to move Christy Mathewson to first base. He was fired 41 games into the season and replaced by Heinie Smith, who put an end to such nonsense. Instead, he tried to move Mathewson to shortstop.
We assume everyone reading this knows Ron Gant's connection to the Minnesota Twins.