Jim Mutrie (1851)
Bill Bergen (1878)
Gene Desautels (1907)
Mel Parnell (1922)
Dave Rosenfield (1931)
Tom Cheek (1939)
Marcel Lachemann (1941)
Antonio Pulido (1951)
Ernie Whitt (1952)
Darrell May (1972)
Jonathan Lucroy (1986)
Jim Mutrie managed teams in New York for nine years. He has been called the founding father of baseball in New York City.
Catcher Bill Bergen spent eleven seasons in the majors. He appeared in 947 games and had 3, 028 at-bats. His lifetime stats are .170/.194/.201. Everything you read about him says he was a tremendous defensive catcher, and one assumes he must have been.
There do not appear to be any players with connections to the Minnesota Twins who were born on this day.
Joe Hornung (1857) Sol White (1868) Red Dooin (1879)
Matty McIntyre (1880)
Otto Knabe (1884) Bill Foster (1904) Dutch Rennert (1930) Gerry Arrigo (1941) Jim Strickland (1946) Scott Aldred (1968) Damon Buford (1970)
Ryan Klesko (1971) Damon Hollins (1974)
Hideki Matsui (1974)
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to Eric B. B.
Roger Bresnahan (1879) Ernie Nevers (1902)
Dan Topping (1912)
Frank Thomas (1929)
Jimmy Stewart (1939) Danny Morris (1946) Dave Cash (1948)
Tom Austin (1951)
Mike Fuentes (1958)
Brian Gorman (1959)
Mike Davis (1959)
Odalis Perez (1978) Bobby Keppel (1982) Jose Reyes (1983)
Football great Ernie Nevers, born in Willow River, Minnesota, pitched for the St. Louis Browns for parts of three seasons (1926-1928).
Outfielder Mike Fuentes was drafted by Minnesota in the fifth round in 1980, but did not sign.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to UncleWalt.
Jack Graney (1886)
Garland Braxton (1900)
Danny McFayden (1905)
Vic Harris (1905)
Mike Kreevich (1908)
Frank Demaree (1910) Chuck Thompson (1921) Hank Foiles (1929)
Carmen Cozza (1930) Ed Palmquist (1933) Kazuhisa Inao (1937)
Johnny Edwards (1938)
Ken Singleton (1947)
Elias Sosa (1950)
Gerry Hunsicker (1950)
Francisco Barrios (1953) Scott Ullger (1955) Floyd Bannister (1955)
Pokey Reese (1973)
Freddy Garcia (1975)
Outfielder Carmen Cozza played in the low minors in 1952-1953, batting .242. He later became a college football coach, most notably at Yale. Upon his retirement in 1996, he held the record for most coaching victories in the Ivy League (179) and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2002.
This is also the birthday of Twins’ farmhand Jairo Perez (1988).
Dude Esterbrook (1857)
Irish Meusel (1893)
Mike Ryba (1903)
Frank McCormick (1911)
Jimmy Newberry (1922)
Roy Smalley (1926)
Bill Virdon (1931)
Howie Gershberg (1936) Jake Jacobs (1937) Julio Gotay (1939) Bruce Look (1943) Tom Egan (1946)
Dave Parker (1951) Tom Edens (1961) Randy Winn (1974)
We would also like to wish a happy birthday to SBG’s uncle and to his brother.
Cub Stricker (1859)
Van Lingle Mungo (1911)
Eddie Gaedel (1925)
Del Ennis (1925)
George Brunet (1935) Joe Grzenda (1937) Pete Magrini (1942) Mark Belanger (1944)
Lenn Sakata (1954)
Don Robinson (1957) Carmelo Castillo (1958) Britt Burns (1959)
Kevin Gross (1961)
John Gibbons (1962)
Kevin Ritz (1965)
Dave Mlicki (1968)
Bones Ely (1863)
George Moriarty (1884)
Ed Wells (1900)
Dusty Boggess (1904)
Rosey Gilhousen (1913)
Herb Score (1933)
Roger Nelson (1944) George Mitterwald (1945) Don Money (1947)
Thurman Munson (1947)
Bobby Marcano (1951)
Bill Hohn (1955) Tim Laudner (1958) Heathcliff Slocumb (1966) Donaldo Mendez (1978)
Ed McKean (1864)
Fresco Thompson (1902) Bill Dickey (1907) Wild Bill Wright (1914)
Hector Espino (1939)
Merv Rettenmund (1943)
Bud Harrelson (1944) Bobby Randall (1948) Dave Bergman (1953)
Max Venable (1957)
Brooks Kieschnick (1972)
Tony Graffanino (1972) David Lamb (1975) Mark Ellis (1977)
Jeremy Affeldt (1979)
Jack Chesbro (1874) Eddie Joost (1916)
Lou Brissie (1924)
Duke Sims (1941)
Bill Spiers (1966)
Ray Lankford (1967)
Mike Coolbaugh (1972)
Russ Ortiz (1974)
There appear to be no major league players with connections to the Minnesota Twins born on this day.
Tim Murnane (1851)
Tony Venzon (1915)
Billy Hunter (1928)
John McNamara (1932)
Phil Linz (1939)
Terry Kennedy (1956)
Tony Pena (1957)
Kurt Stillwell (1965)
Rick Wilkins (1967)
Scott Servais (1967)
Darin Erstad (1974) J. C. Romero (1976)
