July 2000
Rich Arpi Continues Bibliography
Work
KARE-11 to Feature Area Ballparks
Cow Chips
Chapter Profiles
Directory Update
Dues
July Birthdays
Quicksteps
Board of Directors
Calendar
Arpi Continues Bibliography
Work
Rich Arpi continues to prepare Current Baseball
Publications, the quarterly newsletter of the SABR Bibliography Committee.
It contains a list of recently published books and magazines on baseball.
The newsletter is free to all committee members, and all issues since 1995
can be viewed on the SABR web page at:
KARE-11 to Feature
Area Ballparks
Following the All-Star Game on Tuesday, July 11,
the KARE-TV (Channel 11) news will have a feature on Nicollet and Lexington
parks, homes of the Minneapolis Millers and St. Paul Saints. The talking
heads on the segment will include Rich Arpi and your scribe.
Cow Chips
Glenn Gostick was featured in an article
on Dick Cassidy in the Saturday, May 13, 2000 Star Tribune, Newspaper
of the Twin Cities. “No one knows and loves the game more than him,”
Cassidy said of Gos. . . . Roger Godin went to Ottawa for the Society
for International Hockey Research convention and made a presentation on
the 1915-16 St. Paul Athletic Club team, winners of the McNaughton Cup.
. . . Seth C. “Dr. Fan” Hawkins got to his 61st major league baseball
stadium, Comerica Park in Detroit, over Mothers’ Day weekend. He also sampled
the wares at nearby Jacoby’s German Biergarten and provided a review of
what he called “one of my toughest meals ever: the sauerbraten seemed to
have been from an era before Sam Crawford set his triples record
and somewhat resembled ‘texturally’ Hugh Jennings’s least favorite
glove.” Seth got to ballpark number 62 in June when he went to Houston
and saw some games at Enron Field. In addition to all that, Dr. Fan was
quoted in a May 12, 2000 Associated Press article on the Metrodome. . .
. Pete Hepokoski and his wife, Mary, went on vacation in
the Pacific Northwest and saw a Mariners-White Sox game at Safeco Field
on Memorial Day (with the ceremonial first pitch being thrown out by a
survivor of the Bataan Death March).
Late Breaking Cow Chips
Rachel Laurie, wife of Ian, won a
contest on WCCO Radio last March that was good for a free trip to Spring
Training for Rachel and her family (which, in addition to Ian, includes
an infant son, Dayton). The crew saw four Twins games as well as
one Red Sox game, in which Pedro Martinez pitched. They also made
many visits to Sanibel Island and explored the Corkscrew Swamp.
Stay tuned to Cow Chips for more up-to-the-minute news on the lives of Halsey Hall Chapter members.
Chapter Profiles
Rich Wolf is hoping to come off the 60-day
disabled list after a year-and-a-half of being ill and going through two
surgeries last summer. Rich has been a lifelong baseball fan. He was batboy
for the St. John’s University baseball team, for which his brother played,
when he was nine. Rich later played high school baseball and town ball
in Long Prairie. His two great thrills in baseball were touring the Hall
of Fame and seeing two games with his sons at Fenway Park. A retired CPA,
Rich has an interest in statistics and is the statistician for one of the
two Rotisserie Leagues he is in.
Ray Luurs is from Presho, South Dakota. He attended his first game in 1970, the day after a bomb threat delayed a Twins game, and saw Bert Blyleven shut out the Red Sox, 7-0. Ray is now a courier in the Twin Cities. He has a daughter, Courtney (16); son, Geoff (12); and granddaughter, Kaeleigh; in addition to a wife, Kris.
Directory Update
Alan Holst
FSI Yokohama
PSC 472 Box 2
FPO AP 96348-1100
Home—81-045-621-6521
Work—81-045-622-6514
E-mail: holstar@state.gov
Ron Replogle
New phone number: 612-243-1911
Howard Luloff
New e-mail address: hfan77@webtv.net
Terry Bohn’s e-mail was incorrectly printed in an earlier issue. It should be:
Dues
If you haven’t already done so, please submit your
subscription dues of $12. If you’re not sure of your dues status, contact
Treasurer Kevin Hennessy at 651-227-5183 or via e-mail at BBWSMIN@aol.com.
Send a check, made out to Halsey Hall Chapter, to Kevin Hennessy, 608 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55102.
July Birthdays
1—Brenda Himrich (also Roger
Connor, John Clarkson, and Princess Diana)
7—Roger Godin and John Gordon
(also Satchel Paige, Billy Herman, Dan Gladden, Bill Melton, Tim Teufel,
and Chuck Knoblauch)
11—Bob Kapla (also Bob Allison
and John Quincy Adams)
14—Ted Hathaway (also Happy Chandler,
Robin Ventura, Gerald Ford, and Steve Stone) 16—John
DiMeglio (also Joe Jackson, Larry Jansen, and Terry Pendleton)
19—Bob Tholkes (also Phil Cavaretta,
Bob Meusel, Mark Koenig, Marius Russo, and Lizzie Borden)
23—George Rekela, Stew Thornley
(also Don Drysdale, Nomar Garciaparra, Pee Wee Reese, Ginger Beaumont,
Ival Goodman, and Monica Lewinski)
29—Tracy Tool (also Dan Driessen,
Felix Mantilla, Chief Meyers, Ken Burns, Elizabeth Dole, and Marilyn Quayle)
Quicksteps
Open Season
The Quicksteps, the vintage base ball nine comprised
primarily of Halsey Hall Chapter members, opened its 2000 season on Sunday,
June 11 with an 11-0 win over the soldiers of the Sixth Minnesota Volunteer
Regiment at Fort Snelling. The Quicksteps have several matches scheduled
in July (listed below). Chapter members are encouraged to attend.
Upcoming Matches
Tuesday, July 4 at Murphy’s Landing, Shakopee, 1
p.m.
Sunday, July 23, Hennepin County Fair
Saturday, July 29, Stillwater, noon and 2 p.m.
Halsey Hall Chapter
Board of Directors 1999-2000
Rich Arpi
Kevin Hennessy
Dan Levitt
Joe O’Connell
Jim Wyman
Cary Smith
Bob Tholkes
The Holy Cow! Editor—Stew Thornley
August 5—Hot Stove Saturday Morning,
8:30 a.m., Baker’s Square, 66th and Xerxes, Richfield
Please direct news about chapter events, about yourself
or about other chapter members to:
S. Thornley
1082 Lovell Avenue
Roseville, Minnesota 55113-4419
E-mail Stew
Thornley
http://member.aol.com/halseyhall/Home.html