Otto Hess (1878)
Bill Killefer (1887)
Wally Berger (1905)
John Stone (1905)
Floyd Baker (1916)
Bobby Tiefenauer (1929)
Don Schaly (1937)
Gene Tenace (1946)
Roger Metzger (1947) Terry Enyart (1950) Les Straker (1959) Jim Weaver (1959) Ramon Martinez (1972)
Placido Polanco (1975)
Pat Burrell (1976)
Troy Tulowitzki (1980)
Kolten Wong (1990)
Don Schaly was the head baseball coach at Marietta College for forty years. His teams reached the finals of the Division III College World Series ten times, winning three times.
Kolten Wong was drafted by Minnesota in the sixteenth round in 2008, but did not sign.
Dave Rowe (1854)
Al Maul (1865) Rube Marquard (1866) Joe Sewell (1898) Mike Hershberger (1939)
Joe Pepitone (1940)
Freddie Patek (1944)
Bob Moose (1947)
Steve Palermo (1949)
Brian Downing (1950)
Randy Lerch (1954)
Felix Fermin (1963) Danny Mota (1975) Brian Roberts (1977) Mark McLemore (1980) Jason Pridie (1983)
Steve Palermo was a major league umpire from 1977-1991, when he was shot and paralyzed while trying to prevent a robbery. He became Supervisor of Umpires in 2000.
We would also like to wish a happy birthday to brianS' dad.
Doc Crandall (1887)
Donie Bush (1887)
Ping Bodie (1887)
Wally Moses (1910)
Danny Murtaugh (1917)
Catfish Metkovich (1920)
Ed Kirkpatrick (1924)
Don Pepper (1943)
Paul Splittorff (1946) Rick Stelmaszek (1948) Enos Cabell (1949)
Jerry Reed (1955) Mike Morgan (1959) J. T. Bruett (1967) Olmedo Saenz (1970) Antoan Richardson (1983) Cody Eppley (1985)
Right-hander Jerry Reed was drafted by the Twins in the eleventh round in 1973, but did not sign.
We would also like to wish E-6 a very happy birthday, and a very happy anniversary to Rhu_Ru's parents.
Fleet Walker (1856)
Brickyard Kennedy (1867)
Bill Walker (1903) Chuck Klein (1904) Frank Baumholtz (1918)
Grady Hatton (1922)
Bud Daley (1932)
Phil Ortega (1939)
Jose Cardenal (1943) Rich DeLucia (1964)
Evan Longoria (1985)
Moses Fleetwood "Fleet" Walker is credited as the first African-American to play major league baseball. A catcher, he appeared in forty-two games for the Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association in 1884, until rival owners and players demanded that he be removed from the roster. In those forty-two games, he batted .263/.325/.316.
There do not appear to be any players with connections to the Twins born on this day. I keep thinking that Bud Daley was a Twin, but apparently I get him confused in my mind with Bill Dailey.
Pop Snyder (1854)
Jerry Grote (1942)
Gene Clines (1946)
Gary Gentry (1946)
Victor Bernal (1953)
Alfredo Griffin (1957)
Oil Can Boyd (1959) Rich Yett (1962) Ruben Sierra (1965) Archi Cianfrocco (1966)
Darren Oliver (1970)
Freddy Garcia (1976) Andrew Albers (1985)
Right-hander Victor Bernal was drafted by the Twins in the 1975 January draft, but the pick was voided. He went on to be chosen by San Diego in the June draft of 1975 and played in fifteen games for the Padres in 1977.
Henry Chadwick (1824) John Reilly (1858)
Claude Ritchey (1873)
Jim Bagby (1889)
Sam West (1904)
Si Johnson (1906) Andy Kosco (1941) Dan Fife (1949) Onix Concepcion (1957) Randy Bush (1958) Rey Sanchez (1965) Brandon Puffer (1975)
Henry Chadwick is often considered the father of baseball. He wrote the first rule book, created the box score, and was the first to keep track of singles, doubles, triples, and home runs.
Orator Shafer (1851)
Ray Fisher (1887)
Frank Crosetti (1910)
Red Munger (1918)
Rip Repulski (1928)
Jimy Williams (1943) Tony LaRussa (1944) Glenn Adams (1947) Dave Johnson (1948) John Wathan (1949)
Lary Sorensen (1955)
Charlie Liebrandt (1956)
Billy Hatcher (1960)
Joe Boever (1960)
Dennis Cook (1962)
Chris James (1962)
Bruce Ruffin (1963)
Mark McLemore (1964)
Steve Olin (1965) Kyle Lohse (1978) Tony Gwynn (1982) Kurt Suzuki (1983)
Fred Clarke (1872) Bob Skinner (1931)
Jack Lamabe (1936)
Chuck Scrivener (1947) Dave Winfield (1951) Dennis Eckersley (1954) Jim Joyce (1955)
Daryl Sconiers (1958)
Darrin Fletcher (1966)
Junior Felix (1967)
Wil Cordero (1971) Eric Munson (1977)
Infielder Chuck Scrivener was drafted by the Twins in the seventeenth round in 1966, but did not sign.
Jim Joyce has been a major league umpire since 1989.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to spookymilk.
Mike Dorgan (1853)
Eddie Murphy (1891)
Masayori Shimura (1913)
Maury Wills (1932)
Earl Wilson (1934)
Bob Robertson (1946)
Greg Pryor (1949) Alan Newman (1969) Matt Walbeck (1969) Eddie Guardado (1970) Scott Schoeneweis (1973) Jose Morban (1979) Aaron Hicks (1989) Cam Bedrosian (1991)
Masayori Shimura was a pioneering baseball broadcaster in Japan.
Cam Bedrosian is the son of ex-Twin Steve Bedrosian.
Ray Kolp (1894)
Carmen Hill (1895)
Jimmie Reese (1901)
Jim Russell (1918) Hal Naragon (1928) Chuck Hiller (1934) Rod Carew (1945) Bill Bonham (1948)
Pete Falcone (1953) Jeff Reardon (1955) Vance Law (1956)
Mark McGwire (1963) Roberto Kelly (1964) Chuck McElroy (1967)
John Thomson (1973) Brandon Knight (1975)
Matt Cain (1984) Erik Komatsu (1987)
Jimmie Reese played in the majors only briefly, but was a coach in the majors or minors for most of his life. He was Babe Ruth's roommate for a short period, and uttered the famous line that in reality, he roomed with Babe Ruth's suitcase. He is also remembered for his skill with a fungo bat, to the extent that he would sometimes pitch batting practice with it.
We would also like to wish Beau a very happy birthday.
