John Henry "Pop" Lloyd (1884) George Fiall (1900)
Bill Grieve (1900)
Roy Parmelee (1907)
Bobby Estalella (1911)
Red Flaherty (1917)
Ed Vargo (1930)
Lew Krausse (1943)
Kerry Taylor (1950) Greg Wells (1954) Larry Pashnick (1956) Tony Phillips (1959)
Darren Holmes (1966)
Joe Buck (1969)
Brad Clontz (1971) Jacque Jones (1975) Garrett Mock (1983)
A member of the basketball hall of fame as part of the “Renaissance Five” team, shortstop George Fiall played in the Negro Leagues from 1918-1931.
Kerry Taylor played for the GCL Twins in 1968. He then went into the Army and was killed in the Vietnam War.
Garrett Mock was drafted by Minnesota in the fourteenth round in 2002, but did not sign.
Bob Ewing (1873)
Howard Ehmke (1894)
Harry Harper (1895) Andy Cooper (1896) Ed Musial (1922)
Frank Lucchesi (1927)
Lou DiMuro (1931)
Terry Tata (1940)
Ivan Murrell (1943) Bill Singer (1944) Pat Zachry (1952) Bill Krueger (1958) Mike Blowers (1965)
Omar Vizquel (1967) Todd Jones (1968) Chipper Jones (1972) John Barnes (1976) Carlos Beltran (1977) Miss SBG (2007)
The brother of Stan Musial, Ed Musial played in the minors in 1941 and from 1946-1950.
This is also the birthday of Twins' farmhand Adrian Salcedo (1991).
Tommy Dowd (1869)
Charlie Hemphill (1876)
Charlie Smith (1880)
Mike Mowrey (1884) Dave Bancroft (1891) Roy Hofheinz (1912)
Preston Gomez (1923)
Tom Hutton (1946)
Milt Wilcox (1950) Doug Clarey (1954) Floyd Chiffer (1956) Don Mattingly (1961) Greg Brummett (1967) Dan Smith (1969)
Todd Hollandsworth (1973)
Dan Smith was drafted by Minnesota in the twenty-second round in 1987, but did not sign.
Frank Navin (1871) Sam Crawford (1880) Duffy Lewis (1888)
Jack Scott (1892)
Steve Blass (1942)
Mike Paul (1945)
Doug Flynn (1951) Bobby Castillo (1955) Rich Bordi (1959) Jim Eisenreich (1959) Dennis Rasmussen (1959) Steve Dunn (1970) Rico Brogna (1970) Brian Buscher (1981) Miguel Cabrera (1983)
Billy Butler (1986)
Rich Bordi was drafted by Minnesota in the fifth round in 1977, but did not sign.
Alexander Cartwright (1820) Cap Anson (1852) Tom Needham (1879)
Jake Daubert (1884)
Buzz Arlitt (1912)
Solly Hemus (1923)
Antonio Pollerena (1947)
Tsutomu Wakamatsu (1947)
Denny Walling (1954)
Craig Worthington (1965)
Marquis Grissom (1967)
Gary Bennett (1972)
This is also the birthday of Twins’ farmhand Deolis Guerra (1989). There do not appear to be any major league players with connections to the Minnesota Twins who were born on this day.
Tim Keefe (1857) Hugh Nicol (1858)
Webster McDonald (1900)
Ethan Allen (1904) Hank Greenberg (1911) Joe Reichler (1915) Sherry Robertson (1919) Earl Torgeson (1924)
Carl Scheib (1927)
Roy Majtyka (1939) Bill Bethea (1942) Rick Albert (1951)
Bob Owchinko (1955)
La Marr Hoyt (1955)
Fernando Tatis (1975)
We would like to wish a very happy birthday to mrs. bhiggum.
