Chippy McGarr (1863) Ed Barrow (1868) Klondike Douglass (1872)
Harry Salsinger (1885)
Allan Roth (1917)
Hideo Fujimoto (1918)
John McMullen (1918) Herb Carneal (1923) Jim Hickman (1937)
Ken Berry (1941) John Cumberland (1947) Chris Berman (1955) Joey Meyer (1962) Robby Thompson (1962)
Pete Schourek (1969)
A great baseball broadcaster was born on this day, and it ain’t Chris Berman. For some of us, Herb Carneal will always be the Voice of the Twins.
Frank Bancroft (1846)
Tommy Clarke (1888)
Billy Jurges (1908)
Tony Bartirome (1932) Ron Jackson (1953) Tom Chism (1954) Tony Gwynn (1960) Aaron Harang (1978)
Prince Fielder (1984)
We would also like to wish a happy birthday to UncleWalt’s youngest child.
Dan Brouthers (1858) Edd Roush (1893) Turkey Stearnes (1901) Mike Cuellar (1937) Steve Braun (1948)
Orestes Destrade (1962)
Todd Greene (1971)
John Maine (1981)
Adrian Gonzalez (1982)
Mike Cuellar pitched in AAA in the Twins’ organization in 1961. He does not seem to have belonged to the Twins, however. It may be that he was temporarily loaned to them, a practice which was not uncommon in the 1960s.
Mickey Doolan (1880)
Tom Zachary (1896) Dick Williams (1929) Claude Raymond (1937)
Steve Whitaker (1943) Manny Hernandez (1961)
Brook Fordyce (1970)
Conor Jackson (1982)
James Loney (1984)
Bonesetter Reese (1855)
Walton Cruise (1890)
Mike McCormick (1917) Willie Mays (1931) Russ Gibson (1939) Bill Hands (1940) Masanori Murakami (1944)
Steve Staggs (1951)
Larry Andersen (1953) Al Williams (1954)
John “Bonesetter” Reese worked with many baseball players and other famous people in the first part of the twentieth century. “Bonesetting” is a Welsh term for the treatment of muscle and tendon strains.
Infielder Steve Staggs was drafted by Minnesota in the fourteenth round in 1970, but did not sign.