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Chapter Meeting Recap
More than 20 members attended the spring chapter meeting May 3 in southeast Minneapolis and were treated to an appearance by Bob “Rocky” Johnson, an Edina native who played 11 years in the major leagues. Rocky told the group he had been “blessed with a lot of desire,” which was nurtured by Howard Merriman, his coach in midget’s baseball in Edina. The desire helped Rocky make it through more than 2,500 at-bats in the minor leagues before making to the majors. Rocky had interesting stories about teammates Jackie Brandt (who once lost a fly ball in the moon) and prankster Moe Drabowsky, who carried a suitcase full of firecrackers and cherry bombs. The meeting also featured research presentations by Dave Laliberte on Baseball at Native American Boarding Schools in Minnesota: A History and by John Rosengren on his new book, Hammerin’ Hank, George Almighty & The Say Hey Kid: The Year that Changed Baseball Forever. In addition, a panel consisting of Art Mugalian, Kevin Hennessy, Scot Johnson, Lee Temanson, and Bob Evans spoke about their research and writing experiences for the Minnesotans in baseball book that the chapter is producing. Howard Luloff was suave and entertaining, as usual, in handling masters of ceremonies duties and also provided a baseball quiz. The group was divided into teams for the quiz with Team Smith kicking butt over Team Thornley.
From this group, Art Mugalian was elected president for the coming year, Lee Temanson vice president, Jerry Janzen treasurer, and Armand Peterson secretary. As vice president, Lee appointed chairs of the standing committees by retaining current Events Chair Howard Luloff and Membership Chair Stew Thornley and appointing Bob Tholkes as chair of the Research Committee and Art Mugalian as chair of the Book Club. The date for the fall chapter meeting has been set for Saturday, October 18. An evening baseball party that will include watching a playoff game on television (if one is being played) will be held at the Thornley-Himrich home in Roseville that night.
July 19—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. July 20—Research Roundtable, Perkins Restaurant, 4917 Eden Avenue, Edina, 6:00 p.m. For more information, contact Bob Tholkes, 763-781-6161, rjtholkes@msn.com. October 18—Fall Chapter Meeting. For more information, contact Howard Luloff, 952-922-5036, Hfan77@webtv.net.
Halsey Hall Chapter Board of Directors 2008-2009 Halsey Hall Chapter Web Page: http://halseyhall.org
Halsey Hall Chapter E-list/Message Board: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/halseyhall
Past issues of The Holy Cow! are available at http://halseyhall.org/pubs/holy.html
Chapter History: http://halseyhall.org/officers_history.html
Chapter Procedures and By-Laws: http://halseyhall.org/bylaws.html
Society for American Baseball Research: http://sabr.org
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