Happy Birthday–October 13

Charles Somers (1868)
Wild Bill Donovan (1876)
Rube Waddell (1876)
Pickles Dillhoefer (1893)
Frankie Hayes (1914)
Lou Saban (1921)
Charlie Silvera (1924)
Eddie Yost (1926)
Eddie Mathews (1931)
Bob Bailey (1942)
Randy Moffitt (1948)
Dick Pole (1950)
Frank LaCorte (1951)
George Frazier (1954)
Bryan Hickerson (1963)
Chris Gwynn (1964)
Trevor Hoffman (1967)
Damian Miller (1969)

Better known as a football coach, Lou Saban was the president of the New York Yankees in 1981 and 1982.

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Playing Favorites

So, this began as an LTE, but I didn't want the conversation to get lost.

We all have favorites in baseball, be they players, teams (uh, Twins, duh. Why are you here?), numbers. This is a classic, pull-up-your-bar-stool game: IF you were a Minnesota Twin (for a day, or a week, or a lifetime), what number would you want your jersey to read, and why?

For the sake of argument, retired numbers are in play.

Remodeled basement. Same half-baked taste.