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April 2015 Editor:
Registration is at 8:30 with research presentations beginning at 9:00. The featured guest be on at 1:00. A business meeting will be held during lunch. The cost for the meeting and lunch is $10. The meeting only is $5. Those wanting lunch must RSVP to Howard Luloff, 952-922-5036. Howard has succeeded Scott Cummings, who left the Twin Cities to go to school in Duluth, as the chapter’s Events Committee Chair. Members are invited to submit a proposal to make a research presentation at the meeting. Proposals must be sent to Research Committee co-chairs Brenda Himrich or Sarah Johnson and include a title and brief outline of what the presentation will consist of with emphasis on the research that will be included. Standard presentations are 20 minutes (with an additional eight minutes for questions) although the duration may be longer or shorter depending on the needs of the presenter and of the schedule. The Research Committee (which also consists of Dan Levitt, Stew Thornley, Rich Arpi, and Bob Tholkes) will finalize the schedule of research presentations two weeks before the meeting, so proposals must be submitted by then. Poster presentations are also welcome. Anyone who wishes to make a poster presentation may contact Brenda Himrich. Frank White may be bringing some display boards from They Played for the Love of the Game: Adding to the Legacy of Minnesota Black Baseball, which is on display at the Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul through June 7. As part of this display, an opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, and two programs have been scheduled (both from 6 to 8 p.m.): Thursday, April 23 on baseball rivals St. Paul and Bloomington and Thursday, June 4 on the legacy of the Oxford Playground in St. Paul with presenters Steve Winfield, Bill Peterson, Sean McKamie, and Debbie Montgomery. The reception and programs are free and open to the public. Three proposals for oral presentations at the April 25 chapter meeting have been received so far:
Elections for the board of directors will be held during the business meeting. A special election will be held to fill the remainder of the term of Scott Cummings, who resigned when he moved to Duluth. The regular election will then be held, and four members will be elected to the board of directors to succeed outgoing directors Doug Skipper, Gary DeSmith, and Leanne Rohrbach as well as the person elected to fill out Scott’s term, which expires on June 30. So far Tom Flynn has agreed to run for the remainder of Scott’s term and to run for a two-year term beginning July 1. Frank Kadwell, Lloyd Kepple, and Doug Skipper have also agreed to run for two-year terms beginning July 1. The candidates have been invited to submit candidate statements: Tom Flynn: “I’ve been a member of the Halsey Hall Chapter for most of the past eight years. During that time, I gradually became more involved in SABR, attending a variety of chapter events and meetings, and the national convention. I’m a baseball researcher and writer who has contributed to the SABR Games Project, and I’m currently working on a large biographical project. For the past year, I’ve served as our chapter’s Social Media Director. I’m interested in continuing to help recruit new members and further develop our online presence and visibility, while maintaining our traditions and institutional personality. I get a lot out of my SABR membership, and I want to give back.” Anyone else interested in running for a two-year term on the board may contact Nominating Committee Chair Stew Thornley, 651-415-0791. Prior to July 1, the incoming and holdover board members will meet and elect a president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer for one-year terms beginning when their board terms start on July 1. Other upcoming activities: The Research Committee will be meeting Tuesday, April 14 and Monday, May 18 at 7:00 p.m. the Hennepin County Southdale Library, 7001 York Avenue South, Edina 55435. For more information, contact Research Committee co-chairs Brenda Himrich and Sarah Johnson. The next Fred Souba Hot Stove Saturday Morning, an informal breakfast gathering for the purpose of talking baseball, will be at 9:00 on May 9 at Bakers Square in Richfield (66th Street to the east of Xerxes Avenue). Road Trips and Ballgames The chapter is also planning a group outing to a Delano Athletics game at Delano Municipal Stadium at Central Park on Friday, July 17. The Athletics play Mound that night at 7:30. Those attending may meet for dinner at 6 p.m. in Delano (eatery to be determined) or at the ballpark. The chapter is considering a meeting to be held in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, this summer, possibly in conjunction with one of the neighboring SABR chapters. Book Event
Ryan is from Des Moines and went to his first Iowa Cubs game when he was four. He has been to multiple games every year since then and attended his first major-league game, in Kansas City, when he was eight. Watching future Cubs in Des Moines, Ryan became a Cubs fan and still is; he also has season tickets for the Twins. He has seen games in Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis. Ryan shares his August 18 birthday with Roberto Clemente, Evan Gattis, Bob Kennedy, Burleigh Grimes, Billy Consolo, Bobby Higginson, Buck Weaver, Joe Azcue, Max Lanier, Elayne Boosler, Rafer Johnson, Robert Redford, Meriwether Lewis, Caspar Weinberger, and Roman Polanski. Will Young is a returning member. Will is an attorney who grew up in Richfield and now lives in Minneapolis wiith his wife and six-month-old son, Lincoln. (He also lived for seven years in Washington, D. C. “I was blessed growing up to have a family with partial season tickets, so I saw a lot of games at the Dome and used to sit next to the players’ wives and children in section 123. I was at Game 2 of the 1991 World Series, Game 163 in 2009, and the last playoff game the Twins won (game 1, 2004 ALDS), sitting by myself in the cheap seats in Yankee Stadium getting heckled. I was also at Scott Erickson’s no-hitter. In 1996, Kevin Young hit a homerun off Scott Aldred that hit off my leg in the Home Run Porch and bounced back onto the field. That’s just the beginning of the many games I’ve attended.” Will shares his January 13 birthday with Kevin Mitchell, Elmer Dessens, Fred Schulte, Steve Comer, Bob Forsch, Larry Jaster, Cactus Keck, Goat Anderson, Jersey Joe Walcott, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Also new to SABR: Adam Daily and Darin Buhr
Roger Godin was featured in an article in the March 3, 2015 St. Paul Pioneer Press, At the X, a Museum Worthy of the State of Hockey, on his work as team curator for the Minnesota Wild and the displays he has created at the Excel Energy Center. Here are the answers to the Gene Gomes brainteasers:
For the next project Gene (who was born on Opening Day in 1952) proposes that all chapter members research and document the first major-league game they attended. “They could get the box score, etc. to make it their own personal research project. I’m interviewing my mom presently to help me nail down which Dodgers game we went to while on family vacation in ‘63.”
Shorty after Ernie Banks died, Kevin Schooler wrote an article on his blog, Ballots and Balls, attempting to identify Banks’s counterparts on the other major-league teams. “It was mostly off the cuff and meant mostly as a fun exercise in attempting to identify the most influential player as opposed to simply the best player on each team. It also served as a way of honoring Banks’s memory.”
April 14 and May 18—Research Committee Meeting, Hennepin County Southdale Library, 7001 York Avenue South, Edina 55435, 7:00 p.m. For more information, contact Brenda Himrich or Sarah Johnson.
April 25—Spring Chapter Meeting, Faith Mennonite Church. For more information, contact Howard Luloff, 952-922-5036.
May 9—Fred Souba Hot Stove Saturday Morning, Bakers Square, 66th and York, Richfield, 9:00 a.m. For more information, contact Mark Johnson, 952-831-1153.
June 13—Northwoods League game: Duluth at Rochester. For more information, contact Stew Thornley, 651-415-0791.
July 17—Amateur baseball: Mound at Delano. For more information, contact Stew Thornley, 651-415-0791.
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