Tim Raines breezes in with 93% of the vote!
Knoblauch, Finley, and Justice all get shut out.
Only two players on this ballot.
1978 Ballot
Either Good Enough
Total Voters: 11
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Loading... Val Picinich (1896)
Buck Leonard (1907)
Jim Bagby (1916)
Steve Hargan (1942)
Ken Forsch (1946)
Don Aase (1954)
Mike Dyer (1966)
Gil Meche (1978)
Nick Hundley (1983)
Rob Delaney (1984)
Logan Schafer (1986)
First baseman Buck Leonard was a star in the Negro Leagues. He was a teammate of Josh Gibson on the Homestead Grays, and was considered the Lou Gehrig to Gibson's Babe Ruth.
We would also like to wish a happy birthday to Rhubarb_Runner’s father.
Game in progress. Garver started off the Twins right, with someone finally hitting it into the stands.
Good news in the minors!
Dave Foutz (1856)
Hooks Wiltse (1879)
Curt Davis (1903)
Tommy Matchick (1943)
Willie Crawford (1946)
Joe Rudi (1946)
Darren Bragg (1969)
Jason Isringhausen (1972)
Mark Prior (1980)
Wade Davis (1985)
Devin Smeltzer (1995)
Here at the WGOM, we ask the important questions.
Graterol is a:
Total Voters: 9
Loading ...Kylie Rae Harris was killed in a car crash on Thursday. Regarding this song, she said:
"It scared me thinking that it was totally possible I could be gone before my daughter reaches that point," she told the publication. "I want to meet my kid's kids. Getting to the age your parents were when you were a child brings a whole lot of perspective."
(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 10)Loading... Last night's game felt special. Cleveland lost early in the day. There was a chance to extend the lead. Things weren't working amazingly for the offense, but they did enough, and the pitching really stepped up. It had the feel of a team that knew what they had to do, and just executing. And then that final play... Winning a game on a memorable play like that... it seems like the kind of thing you see from the teams that are putting the pressure on others, not dealing with it themselves.
And tonight, the Twins get to apply that pressure directly. With a 6.5 game lead and just 22 to play, Cleveland is running out of room fast. Every win the Twins rack up this weekend further dents the Indians' chances to make to playoffs. It's a stark difference from the last time Cleveland left town, having tied up the division. Two very different directions for the clubs, and now it feels like the Twins can play loose and easy, and let their game be what it is.
I'm looking forward to a great weekend series, and hopefully, maybe even a Francisco Lindor concession speech.
On Wednesday of this week I heard The Vaccine's "Norgaard" (not a new song, and not new to me either), and I got caught up in who this person was that they were singing about. It felt like there had to be a specific muse, at a minimum. Turns out, there's a whole story there, and the person's name actually was Amanda Norgaard.
It was pretty fun to track this down, learn a little bit about a person I had previously been unaware existed, etc. I had kind of the same experience once upon a time with Leonard Cohen's "So Long Marianne". And while there are plenty of songs about people who are famous or otherwise known to the public, I think there's something especially engaging in a song about a real person who is unknown to you.
Anyway, talk songs about real people, especially the unknowns, and drop lists if you got them.
