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Julio Becquer to be Featured Speaker Spring Chapter Meeting May 2
The meeting will be at the Grace University Lutheran Church, 324 Harvard Street SE, Minneapolis, 612-331-0125. Parking is in lot AA, across Harvard Street from the church. The group will attend the Twins-Royals game in the evening. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. with opening ceremonies, hosted by Howard Luloff, starting at 9:00. The research presentations will be:
Julio Becquer will speak and then answer questions starting at 1:00. Howard Luloff will lead a baseball trivia contest at 2:30. During the business meeting at lunch, four new members will be elected to the chapter’s board of directors. Anyone interested in running for a two-year term may contact Nominating Committee Chair Dan Levitt at 612-377-5154, danrl@attglobal.net. Candidates may want to plan to attend the chapter board of directors meeting on a Sunday evening in early June. At this meeting, the incoming board members and holdover board members will elect, from among themselves, a president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer to a one-year term that will begin July 1. (A description of the duties for these offices is at http://halseyhall.org/bylaws#procedures.) Other than the elections at this board meeting, only the outgoing and holdover board members will be allowed to vote on chapter business because the board term of the incoming members will not begin until July 1. Registration for the meeting is $8, which includes lunch. There is also a meeting-only price of $5. Those wanting lunch must RSVP to Howard Luloff at 952-922-5036, hfan77@webtv.net, by April 25. Tickets for the Royals-Twins game are $22 each. To attend the game, send a check payable to Halsey Hall SABR by April 18 to Howard Luloff, 2509 Princeton Court, St. Louis Park 55416.
Bill James in The Politics of Glory: How Baseball’s Hall of Fame Really Works on applying tests to a statement or argument: “What does this mean? Who said this, and when did he say it? Was he in a position to know what he was talking about? Did he have a bias? Was he a friend or teammate? Did he say this at the time, or did he offer this generous judgment years later? In what context did he say that?”
As an eight-year-old, Jim listened with his grandpa on a Zenith radio to Pedro Ramos shutting out the Yankees in the Twins’ first game in 1961. From then on he was hooked, and Jim’s highlights as a fan include attending the seventh game of the 1987 World Series and then celebrating in the streets downtown until 3 a.m.; being at Fenway Park on his honeymoon in 1990 when the Twins turned two triple plays in a game; catching a grand slam hit by Kirby Puckett on August 12, 1994, the last game before the strike canceled the rest of the season; participating in a 10-day baseball trip with other fans that included attending the induction of Kirby Puckett and Dave Winfield into the Hall of Fame in 2001; being named one of the Top 10 Twins Fans in a contest celebrating the team’s first 40 years in Minnesota; and standing next to Calvin Griffith as Roy Smalley popped out to end the last game at Metropolitan Stadium. Jim, who has spent time as a sportswriter, enjoys writing and hopes to produce a Twins trivia and record book. He will be retiring after more than 30 years as a social studies teacher in April 2010, just in time to enjoy his season tickets for Target Field. Jim shares his May 14 birthday with fellow chapter member Frank Marx as well as Ed Walsh, Earle Combs, Tony Perez, Bob Thurman, Dennis Martinez, Dick Howser, Roy Halladay, Sophie “The Trophy” Kurys, Hosken Powell, Suzy Kolber, Dave LaRoche, Alex Pompez, J. L. Wilkinson, Richard Deacon, Bobby Darin, and George Lucas. Also new to the Halsey Hall Chapter: Dave Lande
May 2—Spring Chapter Meeting. For more information, contact Howard Luloff, 952-922-5036, Hfan77@webtv.net. May 9—Hot Stove Saturday Morning, Bakers Square, 66th and Xerxes, Richfield, 9:00 a.m. For more information, contact Mark Johnson, 952-831-1153, baseballbooks@comcast.net.
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Chapter History: http://halseyhall.org/officers_history.html
Chapter Procedures and By-Laws: http://halseyhall.org/bylaws.html
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