Amos Rusie (1871)
Turkey Mike Donlin (1878)
Rube Oldring (1884)
Al Mamaux (1894)
Twink Twining (1894)
Turk Lown (1924)
Mel Nelson (1936)
Mike Sadek (1946)
Dana DeMuth (1956)
Mike LaCoss (1956)
Mike Oquist (1968)
John Courtright (1970)
Manny Ramirez (1972)
Scott Eyre (1972)
Dana DeMuth has been a major league umpire since 1983.
Spider Baum (1882)
Jim Thorpe (1887)
Warren Giles (1896)
John Allyn (1917)
Bob Kuzava (1923)
Frank Saucier (1926)
Kirk Gibson (1957)
Bill Doran (1958)
Duane Ward (1964)
Mike Maksudian (1966)
Mike Defelice (1969)
Jhonny Peralta (1982)
Lester Oliveros (1988)
Spider Baum won 325 games in the minors between 1902-1920. 267 of those wins came in the Pacific Coast League.
Warren Giles was president of the National League from 1951-1969.
John Allyn was the owner of the Chicago White Sox from 1961-1975.
Frank Saucier is the player Eddie Gaedel pinch-hit for in 1951.
Al Reach (1840)
Lip Pike (1845)
Tip O’Neill (1858)
Joe Judge (1894)
Martin Dihigo (1905)
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)
Dave Hollins (1966)
Bill Haselman (1966)
Joey Eischen (1970)
Todd Walker (1973)
Miguel Tejada (1974)
Scott Hairston (1980)
Jason Kubel (1982)
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 has been a major league umpire since 1998.
Dummy Hoy (1862)
Deacon Phillippe (1872)
Zack Wheat (1888)
Arch McDonald (1901)
Willis Hudlin (1906)
Augie Galan (1912)
Lawrence Ritter (1922)
Clyde King (1924)
Skip Bertman (1938)
Tom Penders (1945)
Reggie Cleveland (1948)
Buck Showalter (1956)
Ricky Gutierrez (1970)
Ramon Ortiz (1973)
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.
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.
Al Simmons (1902)
Terris McDuffie (1910)
Jose Valdivielso (1934)
Ron Piche (1935)
Rich Garcia (1942)
Walt Hriniak (1943)
Tommy John (1943)
Jim Colborn (1946)
Jose Mesa (1966)
Al Levine (1968)
Julian Tavarez (1973)
Terris McDuffie pitched from 1930-1954, playing in the Negro Leagues, the Cuban Winter League, the Mexican League, the Puerto Rican League, the Dominican League, the Venezuelan League, the California Winter League, and the minor leagues. His biography at b-r.com is worth reading.
Rich Garcia was an American League umpire from 1975-1999.
Tommy John was one of the Twins’ television broadcasters from 1994-1996.
Fred Dunlap (1859)
Eddie Grant (1883)
Earl Averill (1902)
Hank Johnson (1906)
Mace Brown (1909)
Monty Stratton (1912)
Larry Napp (1919)
Ed Fitz Gerald (1924)
El Tappe (1927)
Moe Thacker (1934)
Barry Latman (1936)
Kent Hrbek (1960)
Bryce Florie (1970)
Tom Martin (1970)
Chris Widger (1971)
Mark Quinn (1974)
Josh Hamilton (1981)
Matt Wieters (1986)
Larry Napp was an American League umpire from 1951-1974.
El Tappe had a twin brother, Mel Tappe, who played in the minors.
Walt Burnham (1860)
Joe Harris (1891)
George Grantham (1900)
Pete Appleton (1904)
Hal Newhouser (1921)
Herman Wedemeyer (1924)
Tom Morgan (1930)
Ken Boyer (1931)
Sadaharu Oh (1940)
Bobby Murcer (1946)
Ralph Bryant (1961)
David Wells (1963)
Todd Stottlemyre (1965)
Ramon Hernandez (1976)
Jayson Werth (1979)
Austin Kearns (1980)
Walt Burham was a minor league manager from 1885-1907, winning 1,164 games.
Outfielder Herman Wedemeyer played for Class C Salt Lake City in 1950. He was a star running back in the All-America Football Conference and later appeared in over 300 episodes of the original Hawaii Five-O, playing Sergeant Edward “Duke” Lukela.
Right-hander Tom Morgan was with Washington at the end of 1960, appearing in fourteen games with them. On January 31, 1961, before the franchise played a game in Minnesota, he was sold to the Los Angeles Angels.
Sadaharu Oh hit 868 home runs in Japan.
Outfielder Ralph Bryant was drafted by Minnesota in the thirteenth round of the January draft in 1981, but he did not sign.
There do not appear to be any other major league players with connections to the Minnesota Twins born on this day.
We would like to wish a very happy birthday to hungry joe.
Babe Adams (1882)
Arndt Jorgens (1905)
Gil Coan (1922)
Jack Sanford (1929)
Carroll Hardy (1933)
Brooks Robinson (1937)
Reggie Jackson (1946)
Osamu Higashio (1950)
Dennis Leonard (1951)
Eric Gregg (1951)
Jim Sundberg (1951)
Andre David (1958)
Jim Bowden (1961)
Erik Hanson (1965)
Eric Young (1967)
Rich Garces (1971)
Joakim Soria (1984)
Pitcher Osamu Higashio is in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame, winning 251 games.
Eric Gregg was a National League umpire from 1978-1999.
Two players who share a name with Minnesota Twins players, Scott Baker (1970) and Roy Smith (1976), were also born on this day.
Hal Carlson (1892)
Del Webb (1899)
Cool Papa Bell (1903)
Ace Parker (1912)
Billy Hoeft (1932)
Ozzie Virgil (1932)
Dan Monzon (1946)
Carlos May (1948)
Pascual Perez (1957)
Greg Mathews (1962)
Jose Guillen (1976)
Carlos Pena (1978)
Del Webb was an owner of the New York Yankees from 1945-1964.
As you probably know, James "Cool Papa" Bell was a star in the Negro Leagues. It was said that he was so fast that he could turn out the light and be in bed before the room got dark.
Ace Parker is a member of both the College Football and Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was an infielder for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1937-1938.
Left-hander Greg Mathews was drafted by Minnesota in the ninth round of the January draft in 1982, but did not sign.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to Philosofer.
Joe Evans (1895)
Jimmy Wasdell (1914)
Al McBean (1938)
Yukata Enatsu (1948)
Bill North (1948)
Rick Waits (1952)
George Brett (1953)
John Smoltz (1967)
Scott Watkins (1970)
A. J. Hinch (1974)
Josh Beckett (1980)
Justin Morneau (1981)
Brian Dozier (1987)
Yukata Enatsu was one of the first closers in Japan, recording 193 saves.
A. J.Hinch was drafted by Minnesota in the third round in 1995, but did not sign.