As a nice segue way, and good way to kick off the new month, ladies and gentlemen, your Grammy® award winning Alabama Shakes:
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Date: Tuesday, September 14.
Batting stars: Jimmie Hall was 2-for-4 with a double, a walk, and a stolen base (his thirteenth), scoring once and driving in two. Zoilo Versalles was 3-for-4 with a walk and a stolen base (his twenty-sixth), scoring once. Rich Rollins was 2-for-5 with a double and a run.
Pitching stars: Jim Kaat pitched eight innings, giving up three runs (two earned) on six hits and three walks with four strikeouts. Jim Merritt struck out two in a scoreless inning, giving up one hit.
Opposition stars: Ken Harrelson was 2-for-3 with a home run (his twentieth), a walk, and a stolen base (his seventh). John Wyatt struck out four in two shutout innings, allowing three hits and two walks. Mike Hershberger was 2-for-4 with an RBI.
The game: Hershberger singled in a run in the top of the second, but Earl Battey had an RBI double in the bottom of the first to tie it 1-1. Hall doubled and scored in the sixth to put the Twins up 2-1, but the Athletics tied it in the seventh on a walk, an error, and two sacrifices. Hall came through again in the seventh, delivering a two-run single to give the Twins a 4-2 lead. Harrelson led off the ninth with a homer, cutting the lead to 4-3. A walk, a single, and a bunt followed, putting men on second and third with one out. Merritt then struck out Wayne Causey and pinch-hitter Billy Bryan to end the game.
Of note: Tony Oliva was 0-for-3 with two walks. Bob Allison was 1-for-3 with a run.
Record: The Twins' sixth straight victory made them 93-54. Baltimore split a doubleheader while Chicago lost, so the Twins' margin over both teams went to ten games.
Notes: Oliva's average dropped to .317...Billy Bryan, whom I don't recall having heard of, had a fairly decent major league career. A catcher, he spent parts of 1961-63 with the Athletics before finally sticking in 1964. He appeared in 211 games for Kansas City from 1964-65, getting 545 at-bats, and actually hit pretty well: .248/.301/.459, numbers which are better than they may appear given the context of the 1960s. He pretty much fell apart after that, though, hitting only .172 in a 1966 season split between the Athletics and the Yankees and spending most of 1967-70 in the minors, although he did play in sixteen games for the Yankees in 1967 and forty for Washington in 1968. His playing career ended after the 1970 season.
Paul Hines (1855)
Farmer Vaughn (1864)
Harry Caray (1914)
Bing Devine (1916)
Othello Renfroe (1923)
Larry Brown (1940)
Vern Fuller (1944)
Jeff Holly (1953)
Dick Bremer (1956)
Johnny Ray (1957)
Mark Gardner (1962)
Rich Rodriguez (1963)
Tony Castillo (1963)
Omar Daal (1972)
Ramon Castro (1976)
Ken Harvey (1978)
Bing Devine worked in baseball front offices from 1939-1978, spending most of that time in the Cardinals organization. He was the St. Louis general manager from 1957-1964 and 1968-1978, serving as the general manager of the Mets from 1965-1967.
Othello Renfroe played in the Negro Leagues for several years. He eventually became a broadcaster, sportswriter, scout, and public address announcer. He was also the first African-American official scorer in major league baseball.
A lifelong Minnesotan, Dick Bremer has been a Twins broadcaster from 1983 to the present with the exception of 1986.
