Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–October 25

Jack Doyle (1869)
Smoky Joe Wood (1889)
Jack Kent Cooke (1912)
Lee McPhail (1917)
Russ Meyer (1923)
Bobby Thomson (1923)
Bobby Brown (1924)
Roy Hartsfield (1925)
Chuck Schilling (1937)
Al Cowens (1951)
Roy Smalley (1952)
Rowland Office (1952)
Tito Landrum (1954)
Danny Darwin (1955)
Andy McGaffigan (1956)
Steve Decker (1965)
Keith Garagozzo (1969)
Pedro Martinez (1971)
Wilkin Ramirez (1985)

Jack Kent Cooke, better known as the owner of the Washington Redskins and the Los Angeles Lakers, owned the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team in the International League from 1951-1964.  He made several unsuccessful attempts to bring major league baseball to Toronto and is a member of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.

Lee MacPhail was the general manager of the Baltimore Orioles from 1958-1965 and of the New York Yankees from 1966-1973.  He was the president of the American League from 1974-1983.  He is the son of Larry MacPhail and the father of Andy MacPhail.

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Keeping Track

1965 Rewind: Game Nineteen

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MINNESOTA 4, CHICAGO 1 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Saturday, May 8.

Batting stars:  Jimmie Hall was 1-for-4 with a two-run homer, his fifth.  Harmon Killebrew was 1-for-2 with two walks and a run.  Bob Allison was 2-for-3 with a walk.

Pitching star:  Mudcat Grant pitched a complete game, giving up one run on seven hits and one walk with six strikeouts.

Opposition stars:  Floyd Robinson was 2-for-4 with an RBI.  Don Buford was 2-for-4.  Gary Peters pitched 6.1 innings, allowing two runs on five hits and three walks with one strikeout.

The game:  There was no score through five.  In the top of the sixth, the first two Sox were retired, but then came a walk and two singles to put Chicago up 1-0.  Tony Oliva's sacrifice fly tied it in the bottom of the sixth.  Zoilo Versalles contributed a sacrifice fly in the seventh to put the Twins ahead 2-1 and Hall hit a two-run homer in the eighth off Hoyt Wilhelm to make it 4-1.  The White Sox did not seriously threaten after the sixth inning.

Of note:  Versalles was 1-for-3 with a run and an RBI.  Rich Rollins was 2-for-4 with a double.  Oliva was 1-for-3 with a double and an RBI.

Record:  The win made the Twins 12-7 and kept them tied for second with California (though ahead based on winning percentage), 1.5 games behind Chicago.

Note:  Jerry Zimmerman came in as a defensive replacement for Earl Battey and caught the last three innings.

Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–October 24

Ned Williamson (1857)
Bill Kuehne (1858)
Lou Sockalexis (1871)
Ossie Bluege (1900)
Jack Russell (1905)
Jim Brosnan (1929)
Rawly Eastwick (1950)
Omar Moreno (1952)
Gary Serum (1956)
Ron Gardenhire (1957)
Junior Ortiz (1959)
Danny Clay (1961)
Rafael Belliard (1961)
Gene Larkin (1962)
Arthur Rhodes (1969)
Rafael Furcal (1977)
Chris Colabello (1983)

Third baseman Ossie Bluege played for the franchise in Washington for eighteen years and remained in the organization for many years after that. He is credited as being the first third baseman to guard the lines in the late innings. He is also credited as the scout who discovered Harmon Killebrew.

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WGOM Videos

Childish Gambino – Freaks and Geeks + Bonfire

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This was one of the top three concerts I think I've ever been to in my life. His first set was the entirety of "Because the Internet". Then the encore was the entirety of "Camp". His third encore was assorted other songs, then a freestyle battle with I think Chance the Rapper (?).

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"Freaks and Geeks" was the first Childish Gambino song I ever heard. With the title and the performer (Donald Glover from "Community" for the unintiated) I was expecting a funny song. I got about 4 seconds into it before I was disabused of that notion. He's been one of my favorites since.

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Friday Music Day

FMD: It’s the Great Halloween Mix, WGOM

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Well, not yet. We have to make it.

HERE'S THE DEAL:

Put One (1) suggestion for a Halloween mix song in a SPOILER comment. A neutral party will collect all the nominations and submit them anonymously (deadline Sunday). The mix will be capped at 100 minutes (should we receive that many suggestions), and will be released next FMD.

Any questions, go nuts. Otherwise, properly SPOILER your tracks and we'll see you next week.

Keeping Track

1965 Rewind: Game Eighteen

CHICAGO 13, MINNESOTA 5 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Friday, May 7.

Batting stars:  Harmon Killebrew was 1-for-4 with a three-run homer, his third.  Tony Oliva was 1-for-3 with a walk and two runs.  Earl Battey was 1-for-3 with a walk and an RBI.

Pitching stars:  None.

Opposition stars:  Pete Ward was 3-for-5 with a two-run homer and a double, scoring three times.  Ron Hansen was 3-for-5 with a home run (his third), scoring three times and driving in two.  Al Weis was 2-for-2 with a home run and a double, driving in three.

The game:  Killebrew hit a three-run homer in the first to put the Twins up 3-0.  Weis' two-run double in the second immediately cut the lead to 3-2.  The White Sox took a 4-3 lead in the fourth on solo home runs by Hansen and Weis.  The Twins got the lead back in the sixth, taking a 5-4 advantage on two walks and RBI singles by Battey and Jerry Kindall.  It went downhill from there, though, as the White Sox scored three runs in each of the last three innings.  Danny Cater hit a three-run homer in the seventh, a pair of errors led to three runs in the eighth, and Ward hit a two-run homer in a three-run ninth.  Eddie Fisher made sure the Twins did not come back, pitching the three final innings perfectly.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 0-for-4.  Rich Rollins was 1-for-4 with a run.  Bob Allison was 0-for-2 with two walks and a run.  Dick Stigman started but pitched only 3.2 innings, giving up four runs on five hits and no walks with two strikeouts.

Record:  The loss dropped the Twins to 11-7, tied for second with California (although in second based on winning percentage), 2.5 games behind the White Sox.

Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–October 23

William Hulbert (1832)
Mike Sullivan (1866)
Lena Blackburne (1886)
Rube Bressler (1894)
Billy Sullivan (1910)
Vern Stephens (1920)
Ewell Blackwell (1922)
Jim Bunning (1931)
Greg Thayer (1949)
John Castino (1954)
Dwight Lowry (1957)
Al Leiter (1965)
Todd Sears (1975)
David Riske (1976)
John Lackey (1978)
Bud Smith (1979)
Kyle Gibson (1987)

William Hulbert was one of the founders of the National League and was its president from 1877 until his death in 1882.

Infielder Lena Blackburne discovered and marketed the mud from the driver beds near the Delaware River in New Jersey that has been rubbed on every major league baseball used since the 1950s.

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Remodeled basement. Same half-baked taste.