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First-time presenter at chapter meeting:
Dirk Lammers, November 2020, None-and-Done: The Moonlight Grahams of No-hit Debuts
Jim is looking for ways (and accepting suggestions) for how to best recognize first-time authors and presenters within the chapter. Gene Gomes will be working with him on this. First-timers and those with ideas are asked to contact Jim at jcox321@hotmail.com or Gene gggomes1@me.com .
Gene, who wrote about his ancestor Abner Powell, received an 1883 photo from John Thorn of Powell with his battery-mate, Chris Fulmer.
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Ed Wehling is a teaching scientist at Anoka-Ramsey Community College who was born in Wichita and moved to Minnesota when he was in third grade. He has also lived in Georgia, Wisconsin, Colorado, and Wyoming.
Wichita had no minor-league team when he lived there so the family listened to Harry Caray on Cardinals broadcasts. His dad, also a big fan, took Ed and his brother to see a game at Lawrence Stadium in Wichita when Mickey Mantle was there. “I was so excited to see Mickey Mantle! He had flown in from Kansas City for the day before a night game in K.C. I remember him accepting some award, and then he took batting practice. One ball left the park and landed on the roof of a church far past the center field fence.”
In Minnesota the family went to a couple of games a year at Met Stadium. “ One of the first MLB games I saw was Dave Boswell's 1-hitter in 1966. I also remember my Dad swearing up a storm at our little portable TV when Zoilo Versalles let a ball go through his legs to lose a game against the Yankees.
“Since then I have been to many Twins games and listened to thousands more. I really like baseball on the radio.”
Ed attended the SABR 19th century symposium in Minneapolis last November, plans to do some research with SABR, and is glad to be part of the Halsey Hall Chapter.
Ed shares his October 30 birthday with Leon Day, John “Buck” Freeman, Marco Scutaro, Bill Terry, Bobby Bragan, Houston Jimenez, Joe Panik, Ed Delahanty, Jason Bartlett, Mickey Rivers, Roe Skidmore, Danny Tartabull, Frederick Fass, Jim Perry, Gerald Perry, Jim Ray Hart, Joe Adcock, Roscoe Conkling, Fred Friendly, Harry R. Truman, John Adams, Bull Halsey, Ruth Gordon, Dick Gautier, Kevin Pollak, Henry Winkler, and Ivanka Trump.
Tyler Oehman (pronounced Oh-man) works in baseball, including now as part of the Minnesota Twins grounds crew since moving to the Twin Cities from Clinton, Iowa, last March 13 as the pandemic was beginning. He had been the director of operations for the Class A Clinton LumberKings, which were an affiliate of the Seattle Mariners and Miami Marlins during Tyler’s six years there.
Tyler grew up in St. Louis during a good time to be a Cardinals fan. He was seven when Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs, and Tyler was there to see the 61st home run. Between the McGwire and Albert Pujols years, Tyler says he “was hopeless in escaping baseball. Other things I’ve witnessed was a minor-league perfect game pitched by former Arizona prospect Connor Grey. And my love for obscure baseball things forces me to mention that I was in attendance for an MLB game played under protest when the Blue Jays came to St. Louis for their first ever series matchup in 2003.”
Tyler attended Clarke University in Dubuque (20 minutes from the Field of Dreams movie site and played on the volleyball team there. Despite moving up the Mississippi River a few times, he still loves all things St. Louis, especially St. Louis style pizza. And he has a fiancée, Katie.
Ty shares his December 18 birthday with his namesake, Ty Cobb, as well as Ronald Acuna, Byron Buxton, Joe Randa, Moose Skowron, Zoilo Versalles, Lance Richbourg, Brendan McKay, Eric Cooper, Gino Cimoli, Coaker Triplett, Jim Clancy, Bill Clymer, Ray Meyer, Joe Stalin, Steven Spielberg, the guy who played Billy Beane in Moneyball, the guy who played Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams, Willy Brandt, John Stout Snook, DMX, Betty Grable, Rex Wimpy, Keith Richards, Stone Cold Steve Austing, Roscoe “Sputnik Monroe” Brumbaugh, and Emily Swallow.
Free student memberships available: SABR, at its 2019 End of Year Campaign, pledged to donate 10 percent of all member gifts back to the Chapters the donors are affiliated with in the form of free student memberships. Halsey Hall Chapter members donated more than $2,800 during the campaign, resulting in 11 free student SABR memberships. The chapter has committed to pay for four additional student memberships if that many are interested.
Know a potential member? Here are resources for getting that person happily involved in SABR:
Membership application
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Cow Pies
Terry Bohn, who finds 19th-century baseball players more interesting than 21st-century politicians, spent his pre-election weeks working on a biography of Ralph Bell, which will be his 50th biography for the SABR BioProject.
Calendar
December 9—Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter Book Club, 7:00 p.m., The Big Fella by Jane Leavy. For more information, contact Dennis Degenhardt
December 12—Book Club via Zoom, 9:30 a.m., 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid by Willie Mays and John Shea.
December 14—Research Committee
meeting, 7:00-9:00 p.m. via Zoom. For more information, contact 
