about this time last year, the hitman threw this song up for Pete (PS cheaptoy: i still think that's a good name). i don't think i ever really got into how rough that week was, but i trusted the docs (not you, bS) that things would get better eventually, and they most certainly did. Pete is a crazy bastard, but i love hanging out with him (this week featured Pete and i running around manhattan by our lonesomes with literally no plans), and i perpetually can't wait to see what the next day will hold.
anyway, from some hipster's wet dream, here's the flaming lips and ESatMZs playing in the hollywood cemetery at sunrise.
Davy Jones (1880)
Ron Swoboda (1944)
Chuck Meriwether (1956)
Bud Black (1957) Al Newman (1960) Tony Fernandez (1962) Mark Grudzielanek (1970) Garret Anderson (1972)
Chan Ho Park (1973)
We would also like to wish a happy birthday to spookymilk’s wife and to hungry joe's son.
Wilbert Robinson (1863) Harry Frazee (1880)
Bobby Veach (1888)
Ollie Carnegie (1899)
Ken Blackman (1911)
Dizzy Trout (1915)
Cal Drummond (1917)
Bob Shaw (1933)
Katsuya Nomura (1935) Harmon Killebrew (1936) Larry Stahl (1941)
John Boccabella (1941)
Bruce Kimm (1951)
Rick Honeycutt (1954)
Pedro Guerrero (1956)
John Wehner (1967) Trey Hodges (1978) Dusty Hughes (1982)
Ken Williams (1890)
Haruyasu Nakajima (1910)
A. Ray Smith (1915)
Oscar Rodriguez (1931)
Fred Gladding (1936)
Ron Luciano (1937)
Fred Talbot (1941)
Al Downing (1941) Don Baylor (1949) Chris Speier (1950) Joe Sambito (1952) Clay Christiansen (1958)
John Elway (1960)
Jay Schroeder (1961)
Mark Grace (1964) Ron Mahay (1971) Corey Koskie (1973) Richard Hidalgo (1975)
Brandon Phillips (1981)
NFL quarterbacks John Elway and Jay Schroeder each played minor league baseball. Elway hit .318 in 151 at-bats as an outfielder for Class A Oneonta in 1982. Schroeder was primarily an outfielder for four years in the Toronto system, never getting higher than Class A. He hit .213 with 36 homers in 1,304 minor league at-bats.
Mark Grace was drafted by Minnesota in the fifteenth round of the January draft in 1984, but did not sign.
Rube Benton (1890)
Fred Saigh (1905)
Dick Terwilliger (1906)
Wendell Smith (1914)
Lou Kretlow (1921)
Gus Zernial (1923) Wayne Terwilliger (1925) Charles Bronfman (1931)
Chuck Coles (1931)
Eddie Kasko (1932)
Rico Petrocelli (1943)
Takashi Nishimoto (1956)
Jeff Conine (1966)
Jim Edmonds (1970)
Daryle Ward (1975)
Chris Woodward (1976) Luis Rodriguez (1980)
Joe Kuhel (1906)
Don Demeter (1935)
Dick Drago (1945)
Clay Kirby (1948)
Bob Shirley (1954)
Alejandro Pena (1959)
Mike Stanley (1963)
Aaron Sele (1970)
Michael Tucker (1971)
Carlos Delgado (1972)
Javier Vazquez (1976)
Aramis Ramirez (1978)
Paul Maholm (1982)
First baseman Joe Kuhel played for the franchise for several years while it was in Washington, and later managed the team there. However, there do not appear to be any players with connections to the Minnesota Twins born on this day.
Billy Nash (1865)
George Harper (1892)
Rollie Hemsley (1907)
Jim Mills (1919)
Wally Yonamine (1925) Don Mincher (1938) Ken Reitz (1951)
Doug Jones (1957) Tom Klawitter (1958) Phil Hughes (1986)
George Weiss (1894)
Jack Smith (1895)
Karl Spooner (1931)
Dave Bristol (1933)
Tom Haller (1937) Dave Goltz (1949) Marty Barrett (1958) Jim Deshaies (1960) Hensley Meulens (1967)
Josh Byrnes (1970)
Mark Hendrickson (1974)
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