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Dan Levitt Appointed as SABR President
Dan Levitt has been appointed president of the Society for American Baseball Research effective December 22. Dan was appointed by the SABR board of directors to fill the vacancy after Dan Evans resigned as president. Dan Levitt will fill out Evans’s term, which will conclude following SABR’s annual business meeting at the convention in 2027. Along with years of service to the Halsey Hall Chapter and the authoring who numerous celebrated baseball books, Dan was elected to the SABR board in 2020 and appointed treasurer the following year.
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Upcoming Events
The next Book Club meeting will be Saturday, December 6 at Barnes & Noble in Har Mar Mall at 9:30 a.m. The book selection is Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage & Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan by Rob Fitts.
Brent Heutmaker has organized a list of all the book selections since the book club started in August 2002: Halsey Hall Book Club Selections.
The Fred Souba Hot Stove Saturday Morning, an informal breakfast gathering for the purpose of talking baseball, will be Saturday, January 10 at 9:00 a.m. at the Shortstop Bar and Grill, 1298 East Moore Lake Drive, Fridley 55432.
For SABR Day on January 29, the chapter has lined up a zoom meeting with Willie Steele, who will talk about W. P. Kinsella.
The annual outing to see the Minnesota Gophers will be Sunday, March 1 when they play the Kansas Jayhawks at U. S. Bank Stadium at 12:05 p.m. A pre-game breakfast gathering is being planned. For more information, contact Howard Luloff, 952-994-5217.
The Halsey Hall Chapter Spring Meeting will be Saturday, April 25 at a to-be-determined location. Members are invited to submit a proposal to make a research presentation at the meeting. Proposals may be sent to Research Committee co-chairs Dave Lande or Gene Gomes and include a title and brief outline of what the presentation will consist of with emphasis on the research that will be included. Standard oral 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.
One presentation slot is always reserved for a first-time presenter until four weeks before the chapter meeting (March 28). If a slot remains after that, any member can submit a proposal until April 11, two weeks before the meeting, when the Research Committee will wrap up the schedule of presentations.
The 2026 SABR convention in Cleveland will be Wednesday, July 29 to Sunday, August 2 at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown. The Arizona Diamondbacks will be in town to play the Guardians during the convention.
Keep up to date with chapter activities on social media:
SABR Halsey Hall Chapter Facebook page
SABR Halsey Hall Chapter Bluesky page
Halsey Hall Chapter Twitter page
Please visit the pages, and, if you haven’t yet, “Like” the Facebook page and “Follow” the Bluesky page and set your notifications to be alerted to new posts. (The Bluesky page has 107 followers, the Facebook page 328 members, and the Xwitter page 809 followers. Bob Komoroski has established rules—essentially, don’t be a dink. The page is still public although Bob has set up a series of questions for new members to cull out spammers, wankers, trollers, and other degenerates.)
Also:
Regular Events
Video Archives of Past Events
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Research Roundtable
Research projects, web pages, and blogs of chapter members are highlighted on the home page of Research Committee.
Ed Edmonds is doing on-line presentations along with co-author Lou Schiff on their anthology, Attorneys in the Hall of Fame. Ed recently conducted an exercise with 13 University of St. Thomas students for a baseball arbitration panel. Kris Hard joined Ed as a judge of the panel. Ed, as usual, is tracking potential arbitration cases during the off-season.
S. Thornley is working on a presentation about Perry Werden for the Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference at the Hall of Fame next April. This will focus on Werden’s record-breaking years with the Minneapolis Millers from 1894 to 1896 (with a list of his home runs now on-line at Perry Werden’s Home Runs for Millers, 1894-1896).
Bob Komoroski attended virtually the annual induction ceremony for the Baseball Reliquary.
Howard Luloff is working on the trivia quiz for the April 25 spring chapter meeting.
Steve Ehlers is now doing the quizzes for the Original Old Timers Hot Stove League at its monthly meetings. The quizzes had been done by chapter members Glenn Gostick and Dave Anderson.
Glenn Renick is working on a pictorial history of baseball cards with Jason Schwartz and Mark Armour.
Mike Haupert et al. is working on a banner and fact sheet to promote SABR scholarships at the annual conference of the Minnesota Council for the Social Studies in February.
The next Research Committee meetings, via Zoom, will be December 15 and January 19 at 7:00 p.m.
Research Committee members are co-chairs Dave Lande or Gene Gomes as well as Brenda Himrich, Sarah Johnson, Dan Levitt, Doug Skipper, Stew Thornley, Rich Arpi, Hans Van Slooten, Mike Haupert, Bob Tholkes, Daniel Dorff, Darryl Sannes, Tom Swift, David Karpinski, Glenn Renick, John Buckeye, Terry Bohn, Ed Wehling, John Gregory, Art Mugalian, John “Sparky” Seals, Ed Edmonds, Mike Zarling, Chrstian Towalski, and Bob Komoroski.
Let a committee member know if you would like to attend a meeting and/or join the committee.
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Art Mugalian Orates a Quiz
Here is the quiz from the November Research Committee meeting from Art Mugalian.
- This Hall of Famer was the 1949 AL batting champ and played his entire career in the American League, mostly at the hot corner. A 10-time all-star, he struck out just 287 times in 15 years.
- This Canadian native played his entire career in Cleveland. He led the league in doubles in 1916 and twice topped his league in walks. He was the first batter to face Babe Ruth in an MLB game. He was Ray Chapman's roommate.
- This Hall of Famer played four decades in the majors and took home 16 straight Gold Gloves. He finally won a World Series ring the year before retirement. His nickname went well with his surname.
- Another HOFer, this guy won five Gold Gloves. He finished fourth in rookie of the year balloting to Frank Howard. He led his league in walks five times and was the first player to invoke the 5-and-10 rule.
- The only HOFer born in New Mexico, this man led his league in home runs seven years in a row. He was once involved in a trade with Joe Garagiola.
- This two-time World Series champ was born in the city where he played his entire ML career. His home run was the only run off Mickey Lolich in an epic game 7. He died from Covid in October 2020.
- This pitcher tossed two complete-game wins in his only World Series but lost out on the MVP to Roberto Clemente. His career was derailed by a condition that was subsequently named for him.
- This HOFer set a pitching record that was broken by another Dodger 20 years later. He hit 29 homers in a 14-year career and once threw six shutouts in a row. He went to high school with Robert Redford.
- This HOFer won 237 games in a 21-year career. Nicknamed "the schoolboy wonder," he was a three-time World Series champ. Upon his retirement he and another Hall of Fame pitcher had recorded more WS victories than any other pitcher. In the off-season he worked as an undertaker.
- Born in Milwaukee, this 1957 AL rookie of the year hit two homers with four RBI in the first World Series game played in his home town. Three years later he was involved in a bad-hop base hit that helped turn Game 7 of another WS.
Answers below
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Membership
Know a potential member? Here are resources for getting that person happily involved in SABR:
Membership application
Get more out of your membership experience by checking out SABR Member Benefit Spotlight Series.
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Thoughts of the Month
No myth is wholesale fable.
—Madame Helena Blavatsky
Be cautious of your own certainty.
—Meg Myers Morgan
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Cow Pies
Art Mugalian took a photo of two chapter members at Harmon Killebrew’s grave
in Payette, Idaho.
Lloyd Kepple (center) was a member of the championship team in the Forever Young 75 Division at the Roy Hobbs World Series in Fort Myers, Florida. Lloyd used his wheels to score the game-ending run in the title game on a single by Roger Johnson, who is world famous in Alexandria, Minnesota.
The November 2025 edition of Keltner’s Hot Corner, the newsletter of the Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter, is on-line:
Keltner’s Hot Corner, November 2025
Past Keltner’s Hot Corner newsletters:
Keltner’s Hot Corner
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Answers to Art Mugalian Orates a Quiz
- George Kell
- Jack Graney
- Jim Kaat
- Ron Santo
- Ralph Kiner
- Mike Shannon
- Steve Blass
- Don Drysdale
- Waite Hoyt
- Tony Kubek
Theme: Players turned announcers
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Calendar
December 6—Book Club, Barnes & Noble, Har Mar Mall, Roseville, 9:30 a.m., Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage & Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan by Rob Fitts. Contact Ed Edmonds for more information.
December 7—Halsey Hall Chapter Board of Directors meeting, 7:30 p.m. For more information on attending, contact Ed Edmonds.
December 15—Research Committee meeting, 7:00-9:00 p.m. via Zoom. For more information, contact Dave Lande or Gene Gomes.
January 10—Fred Souba Hot Stove League Saturday Morning, 9:00 a.m., Shortstop Bar and Grill, Fridley. For more information, contact John Buckeye.
January 19—Research Committee meeting, 7:00-9:00 p.m. via Zoom. For more information, contact Dave Lande or Gene Gomes.
January 29 Zoom meeting with Willie Steele on W. P. Kinsella.
February 7—Book Club, Barnes & Noble, Har Mar Mall, Roseville, 9:30 a.m.
March 1—Minnesota Gophers versus Kansas Jayhawks, U. S. Bank Stadium, 12:05 p.m. For more information, contact Howard Luloff, 952-994-5217.
April 25—Spring Chapter Meeting, 8:45 a.m. For more information, contact Howard Luloff, 952-994-5217, or Bob Komoroski.
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Board of Directors 2025-2026
President—Ed Edmonds
Vice President—Mike Haupert
Secretary—John Buckeye
Treasurer—Rich Arpi
Terry Bohn
Howard Luloff
Jacob Sayward
Events Committee Co-Chairs—Howard Luloff, Bob Komoroski
Research Committee Co-Chairs—Dave Lande, Gene Gomes
Membership Committee Co-Chairs—Stew Thornley, John Buckeye
MVP Chapter Committee Chair—Gene Gomes
The Holy Cow! Editor—Stew Thornley
Ass. Editors—Jerry Janzen, Brenda Himrich, and John Buckeye
Webmaster—John Gregory
Ass. Webmasters—Hans Van Slooten and Stew Thornley
Social Media Directors—Bob Komoroski, Facebook and Bluesky; John Buckeye, Twitter
Halsey Hall Chapter Web Page
Past issues of The Holy Cow! are available on-line.
Chapter History
Chapter Procedures and By-Laws
Society for American Baseball Research
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