Charles Comiskey (1859) Doggie Miller (1864)
Jack Warner (1872)
Bill Sherdel (1896) Jim Snyder (1932) Joey Jay (1935)
Jose Santiago (1940)
Cap Peterson (1942)
Duffy Dyer (1945) Joe Lis (1946) Billy Conigliaro (1947) Tom Kelly (1950) Joe Cowley (1958) Randy Johnson (1958) Jeff Huson (1964)
Scott Brosius (1966)
Chris Singleton (1972)
Oliver Perez (1981)
This is also the seventieth wedding anniversary of Mom and Dad A.
The Twins snapped a four-game losing streak yesterday with a nice win over the Royals. You have to go back to June 17 to find another losing streak that long. And all it took to win was seven solid innings from the starter and a few power swings at the plate. That's a formula that's worked out real well for the Twins this year, although not nearly often enough.
Paul Dean (1912) Earl Weaver (1930) Joel Horlen (1937) Bert Cueto (1937) Mark Fidrych (1954)
Don Carman (1959)
Mark Gubicza (1962) Mike Cook (1963) Mark Loretta (1971)
Juan Pierre (1977)
Clay Buchholz (1984)
Earl Weaver was the long-time manager of the Baltimore Orioles.
Mark Gubicza was an analyst on for FSN on pre-game and post-game shows in 2004.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to sean's son.
Fielder Jones (1871)
George Susce (1907)
Lou Finney (1910)
Sid Gordon (1917)
Jerry Neudecker (1930)
Vinegar Bend Mizell (1930) Mudcat Grant (1935) Tony Cloninger (1940)
Fred Stanley (1947)
Jerry Crawford (1947)
Andre Thornton (1949)
Tom Niedenfuer (1959)
Jim Reboulet (1961)
Jay Buhner (1964) Tom Prince (1964)
Mark Lemke (1965)
Alex Fernandez (1969)
Jarrod Washburn (1974)
Will Ohman (1977)
Corey Patterson (1979)
Dallas Braden (1983)
Boone Logan (1984)
Jerry Neudecker was an American League umpire from 1966-1985. He was the last major league umpire to use an outside chest protector.
Jerry Crawford was a major league umpire from 1976-2010. He is tied with Bruce Froemming for the most postseason games umpired, 111.
Jim Reboulet is the brother of Jeff Reboulet. He was in the minors for six years, reaching AAA. He had three seasons with sixty or more stolen bases.
I watched about 5 innings of baseball this week. The Twins scored a bunch of runs in those 5 innings. Maybe I should have made an effort to watch yesterdays games. Oh well.
Something I found interesting: this is Kyle Gibson's 89th career start for the Twins. He is 29th on the all time list. Kevin Slowey is next at 90 starts.