Bobby Winkles (1930)
Dock Ellis (1945)
Cesar Geronimo (1948)
Phil Bradley (1959)
Bryan Oelkers (1961)
Steve Reed (1965)
Salomon Torres (1972)
Bobby Abreu (1974)
Dan Uggla (1980)
Rich Hill (1980)
Frank Mata (1984)
Bobby Winkles was the head baseball coach at Arizona State from 1959-1971, winning three College World Series titles. He also managed and coached in the major leagues.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to Zack.
Tip of the scarf to CH.
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Loading... My team's schedule is released. Here are the matches in the Metro if you want to come watch any.
March 26th: @ Macalester
April 23rd: vs. Chicago Dragons @ Columbia Park in Northeast
May 14th: vs. Madison (WI) Minotaurs @ Eagan
Two really good story collections I read this month.
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link.
One of those books that just keeps getting recommended over and over until you think "there's no way it's actually that good, right?" Well, now I get to join the club and recommend this one. It was pretty great. For a sample of the stories in this book you can read "The New Boyfriend" or "I Can See Right Through You".
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra.
Yes, the title is kind of bad. But the linked stories in the book are all kind of sadly, cynically funny in a way that seemed very appropriate for the Russian setting (especially the first story "The Leopard" which is about a Soviet censor responsible for doctoring photographs who turns it into an art of his own).
Also, the Nebula nominations came out this month, so if you're looking for some sci-fi to read, there's at least a starting point. I have to get my Hugo ballot together by the end of the month, so if you have any recommendations in any of those categories let me know.
Date: Saturday, September 25 (Game 2 of doubleheader).
Batting stars: Don Mincher was 1-for-3 with a home run (his twenty-second) and a walk. Sandy Valdespino was 2-for-4 with a walk and a run. Frank Quilici was 1-for-4 with a walk and two RBIs.
Pitching stars: Camilo Pascual pitched six innings, giving up three runs (one earned) on three hits and two walks with two strikeouts. Jim Merritt struck out three in three shutout innings, giving up one hit.
Opposition stars: Jim Duckworth struck out thirteen in 7.1 innings, allowing three runs on five hits and two walks. Ed Brinkman was 1-for-3 with a double, scoring once and driving in two. Mike Brumley was 1-for-2 with a walk and a run.
The game: In the second, Brinkman hit a two-run double and Brumley followed with a squeeze bunt that gave the Senators a 3-0 lead. The Twins got on the board in the fourth with a sacrifice fly and scored again in the seventh on Mincher's home run, but still trailed 3-2 going to the eighth. With two on and two out in the eighth, however, Joe Nossek tied the score with a run-scoring double and Quilici put the Twins ahead with a two-run single, giving the Twins a 5-3 advantage. The last eight Senators were retired.
Of note: Zoilo Versalles was 0-for-2. Tony Oliva was 2-for-5 with a run. Harmon Killebrew was 1-for-4 with a walk and a run.
Record: The win made the Twins 98-58. Chicago was eliminated despite sweeping a doubleheader from the Yankees. Baltimore swept a doubleheader from California to remain in second place. They were 7.5 games out of first, but as they still had nine games to play they had a theoretical chance to tie for the championship.
Notes: Oliva raised his average to .322...Sandy Valdespino again played left in place of Bob Allison. Jerry Zimmerman gave Earl Battey a rest behind the plate...So who was this amazing strikeout pitcher Jim Duckworth? Well, he actually did strike out a lot of guys, but he also walked a lot of guys and really was not particularly good. He was used mostly as a reliever but did start a fair number of games. He did the most pitching in his rookie year of 1963, starting fifteen games, relieving in twenty-two, and pitching 120.2 innings. Unfortunately, he went 4-12, 6.04, 1.64 WHIP. In fairness to him, he had pitched in Class B in 1962 and probably should not have been in the majors in the first place. He got better, and 1965 was his best year. He started eight games, relieved in nine, and pitched 64 innings, going 2-2, 3.94, 1.27 WHIP and averaging 10.4 strikeouts per nine innings. He was traded to Kansas City in June of 1966 for Ken Harrelson, but in July the Athletics sent him back to Washington for Diego Segui. He spent 1967 in AAA and didn't pitch badly, but by then he was twenty-eight and the Senators apparently decided they'd seen enough and his playing career ended. He appears to have lived a full life after baseball: He was a California Highway Patrolman for twenty-five years, taught elementary and middle school for seven years, worked at a kayak store for two years, and has more recently become a full-time nature photographer. I like it when I find out people have lived successful lives after baseball.
(2 votes, average: 10.00 out of 10)Loading... Gene DeMontreville (1873)
Art Herring (1906)
John Briggs (1944)
Wayne Twitchell (1948)
Greg Pavlick (1950)
Steve Howe (1958)
John Cangelosi (1963)
Mike Timlin (1966)
Aaron Bates (1984)
Greg Pavlick was a coach in the Mets organization for 26 years, and was a coach in the Yankees organization from 2002-15. He does not appear to be coaching for them this season.
Date: Saturday, September 25 (Game 1 of doubleheader).
Batting stars: Zoilo Versalles was 4-for-5 with a two-run homer (his eighteenth) and a triple, scoring twice. Tony Oliva was 1-for-3 with two walks and a double, scoring once and driving in one. Earl Battey was 1-for-2 with two walks.
Pitching star: Mudcat Grant pitched a complete game one-hitter, giving up two walks with seven strikeouts.
Opposition stars: Don Blasingame was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk. Buster Narum pitched 1.2 scoreless innings, allowing one hit with one strikeout. Marshall Bridges pitched a scoreless inning, allowing one hit.
The game: There was no score until the fifth. The Senators got their only threat in the third, as Jim French reached on an error to start the inning and Blasingame hit a two-out double, but Ken McMullen grounded out to end the threat. The Senators would get only one more baserunner, a one-out walk by French in the fifth. Versalles hit a two-run homer in the fifth to give the Twins a 2-0 lead. In the seventh, Oliva hit a run-scoring double and Sandy Valdespino delivered a two-out two-run single to make it 5-0. The last fourteen Senators were retired.
Of note: Joe Nossek was 0-for-3. Harmon Killebrew was 0-for-3 with two walks.
Record: The win made the Twins 97-58. This eliminated Chicago despite the fact that the White Sox beat the Yankees 2-0 in the first game of their doubleheader. Baltimore, which had moved into second place during a couple of days when the Twins did not play, stayed alive by defeating California 2-1 in the first game of their doubleheader. The Orioles were 7.5 games behind the Twins.
Notes: Oliva kept his average at .321...Joe Nossek played center field in place of Jimmie Hall...Buster Narum is a great name for a ballplayer, especially considering that his given name was Leslie Ferdinand Narum. While he had a great nickname, he was not a great pitcher. He basically had two seasons in the majors, 1964-65, although he also appeared in seven games for Baltimore in 1963 and appeared in five more for Washington from 1966-67. He was mostly used as a starter in 1964-65, starting fifty-six games and relieving in twenty-eight. He was much more effective as a reliever--as a starter he was 12-26, 4.68, 1.46 WHIP, as a reliever he was 1-1, 2.37, 1.28 WHIP. Even granting that it was only 49.1 relief innings, you'd think somebody might have noticed that and decided to see what he could do as a full-time reliever, especially on a team like the Senators, but apparently no one did. He continued to play in AAA through 1969, then his career ended. He became a freight salesman in the trucking industry and passed away in 2004 at the young age of sixty-three.
I know. Dude's wearing a toque in Mali. And a Canadian on the calabash. Giver.
(2 votes, average: 9.50 out of 10)Loading... Billy Southworth (1893)
Myril Hoag (1908)
Phil Seghi (1909)
Joe Paparella (1909)
Arky Vaughan (1912)
Jackie Jensen (1927)
Ron Kline (1932)
Jim Landis (1934)
Bert Campaneris (1942)
John Curtis (1948)
Darrel Chaney (1948)
Wendell Kim (1950)
Terry Mulholland (1963)
Benito Santiago (1965)
Vince Horsman (1967)
Aaron Boone (1973)
C. J. Nitkowski (1973)
Koyie Hill (1979)
Phil Seghi was in baseball most of his life, serving as Cleveland Indians general manager from 1973-1985.
American League umpire Joe Paparella holds the record for most games umpired in a season, 176 in 1962.
The late Wendell Kim was a major league coach and minor league manager for many years.
