Monthly Archives: May 2023

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Happy Birthday–May 25

Al Reach (1840)
Lip Pike (1845)
Joe Judge (1894)
Martin Dihigo (1905)
Chester Williams (1906)
Lindsey Nelson (1919)
Bill Sharman (1926)
Jim Marshall (1931)
W. P. Kinsella (1935)
Glenn Borgmann (1950)
John Montefusco (1950)
Bob Knepper (1954)
Kerwin Danley (1961)
Bill Haselman (1966)
Dave Hollins (1966)
Joey Eischen (1970)
Todd Walker (1973)
Miguel Tejada (1974)
Chris Young (1979)
Scott Hairston (1980)
Jason Kubel (1982)
Eric Young (1985)
Pat Dean (1989)
Neil Ramirez (1989)

Al Reach played major league baseball from 1871-1875.  He later founded the A. J. Reach Company, which was the largest sporting goods company in the United States at one time (it eventually merged with Spalding).  This company also published the Reach Guide, an influential baseball publication, from 1883-1927.

Martin Dihigo was a star in the Negro Leagues, winning 250 games as a pitcher and also winning two batting titles.

Lindsey Nelson was one of the most famous broadcasters in the country at one time.  He broadcast New York Mets games from 1962-1978 and San Francisco Giants games from 1979-1981.

Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Sharman was a minor league outfielder from 1950-1953 and in 1955, reaching AAA with St. Paul.

W. P. Kinsella has written several books on baseball, most notably "Shoeless Joe" the book on which the movie "Field of Dreams" was based.

Kerwin Danley was a major league umpire from 1998-2021.

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Miles Davis Quintet – Footprints

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Miles. Wayne Shorter. Herbie Hancock. Ron Carter. Tony Williams*.

This is the supergroup Wayne Shorter joined when he left Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. He was the last man to join Miles’ Second Great Quintet. Herbie later remarked, “The master writer to me, in that group, was Wayne Shorter. He still is a master. Wayne was one of the few people who brought music to Miles that didn't get changed.”

Wayne wrote & first recorded “Footprints” for his own album, Adam’s Apple, with Herbie on the keys, Reggie Workman on bass, and Joe Chambers on the kit. However, that album wasn’t released until eight months after Miles Smiles, where it closed out Side 1.

* Tony Williams is 21 here, and he’d been playing with Miles for four years already. Miles was twice his age. Neither made it to the turn of the century; Miles’ hard living caught up with him in 1991 at age 65, while Tony Williams was claimed by a heart attack in 1997; he was just 51. One hopes we are blessed to enjoy Ron Carter & Herbie Hancock a fair bit longer.

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Keeping Track

Minor Details: Games of May 23

STORM CHASERS 6, SAINTS 1 IN ST. PAUL

Omaha scored in the first inning and led all the way.

Ryan LeMarre was 2-for-4.

Simeon Woods Richardson pitched four innings, allowing five runs on eight hits and two walks and striking out three.
Patrick Murphy struck out four in two shutout innings, walking one.
Kody Funderburk struck out three in 1.1 scoreless innings, walking one.

CARDINALS 8, WIND SURGE 3 IN SPRINGFIELD

With Springfield leading 5-3, Chandler Redmond hit a three-run homer to put the game out of reach.

Jake Rucker was 3-for-4.
Alex Isola was 2-for-4 with a double.

Carlos Luna pitched four innings, allowing four runs on six hits and striking out two.
Osiris German pitched a scoreless innings, giving up one hit and striking out one.

TIMBER RATTLERS 8, KERNELS 4 IN CEDAR RAPIDS

Wisconsin scored four in the second, including homers by Je'Von Ward and Eric Brown, Jr., to break a 1-1 tie.

Kala'i Rosario was 2-for-4 with a home run (his fourth), a walk, and two RBIs.
Noah Cardenas was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk.
Emmanuel Rodriguez hit a home run, his fifth.

MIGHTY MUSSELS 13, BLUE JAYS 3 IN DUNEDIN

Trailing 3-2, Fort Myers scored eleven runs in the fifth.  They hit five home runs in the inning, two of them by Carlos Aguiar.

Dylan Neuse was 3-for-4.
Aguiar was 3-for-5 with three home runs (his fifth, sixth, and seventh) and five RBIs.
Mikey Perez was 2-for-3 with a double.
Rafael Cruz was 2-for-4 with a two-run homer and a walk.
Jorel Ortega was 2-for-4 with a home run (his third), a walk, and two runs.
Ricardo Olivar was 2-for-5 with a two-run homer (his fourth).

Develson Aria pitched four innings, giving up three runs on two hits and two walks and striking out one.
Ricky Mineo struck out two in two shutout innings, giving up two walks.
Danny Moreno struck out two in two shutout innings, giving up one hit.
Jackson Hicks pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a hit and a walk and striking out one.

TODAY'S TILTS

12:05  Wisconsin at Cedar Rapids (Jaylin Nowlin, 2-3, 4.06)
5:30  Fort Myers (TBD) at Dunedin
6:35  Wichita (Blayne Enlow, 1-1, 3.28) at Springfield
7:05  Omaha at St. Paul (Brent Headrick, 1-1, 4.94)

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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Children of the Night

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The lineup of the Jazz Messengers changed many times over the years as it nurtured and developed incandescent talents. Wayne Shorter joined the group in August 1959 after crossing paths with Lee Morgan.

Almost every Jazz Messengers album of the era features at least a couple Shorter compositions. “Children of the Night” appeared on Mosaic (1962), recorded in October of ‘61 for Blue Note in the Van Gelder studio. Lee Morgan had left the band by that point, replaced by Freddie Hubbard. Wayne Shorter exited the group in late 1964.

With Wayne Shorter’s passing, of those performing here only Reggie Workman remains with us.

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Happy Birthday–May 24

Fred Jacklitsch (1876)
Jack Pfiester (1878)
Joe Oeschger (1892)
Willy Miranda (1926)
Ellie Rodriguez (1946)
Rob Ducey (1965)
Carlos Hernandez (1967)
Todd Rizzo (1971)
Danny Bautista (1972)
Bartolo Colon (1973)
Brad Penny (1978)
Adam Conley (1990)

Adam Conley was drafted by Minnesota in the thirty-second round in 2008 but did not sign.

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2023 Twins Game Logs

2023 Game Log 49 – Giants at Twins

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Oof. Twins have lost five of last seven games all to California teams and for the most part have looked pretty lousy doing so. Sonny Gray on the mound for the Twins tonight and although he has pitched well all season, he hasn't won a game yet in May either. Alex Cobb for the Giants.

Twins have a tough stretch of games coming up and it would be nice to feast upon the so-so Giants. If the rest of the Central wasn't so lousy I'd be worried about going all GOSO on the Twins but I think we can still count on some good baseball throughout the summer, especially with Gray, Ryan, and Lopez heading up the starting rotation.

Game time 6:40 and looks like a glorious night for outdoor baseball.

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Happy Birthday–May 23

Dummy Hoy (1862)
Deacon Phillippe (1872)
Zack Wheat (1888)
Halsey Hall (1898)
Arch McDonald (1901)
Willis Hudlin (1906)
Augie Galan (1912)
Lennie Pearson (1918)
Lawrence Ritter (1922)
Clyde King (1924)
Skip Bertman (1938)
Tom Penders (1945)
Reggie Cleveland (1948)
Buck Showalter (1956)
Ricky Gutierrez (1970)
Ramon Ortiz (1973)
Mike Gonzalez (1978)
Mike Dunn (1985)
Jordan Zimmerman (1986)
Kyle Barraclough (1990)
Cesar Hernandez (1990)

Deacon Phillippe was the winning pitcher in the first World Series game.  He lived in what would become the state of South Dakota from 1875-1896, where his family farmed near the town of Athol.

Legendary sportswriter and broadcaster Halsey Hall broadcast Twins games from 1961-72.

Arch McDonald was an early baseball broadcaster known for his re-creations of games.

Author Lawrence Ritter wrote the excellent book, "The Glory of Their Times".

Skip Bertman was the head baseball coach at LSU from 1984-2001.

College basketball coach Tom Penders played minor league baseball for the Indians in 1968.

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