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Spring Virtual Chapter Meeting May 8
The Halsey Hall Chapter spring meeting will be held on-line on Saturday, May 8 (which is also the birthday of extinguished chapter member Mike Haupert as well as Turkey Stearnes, Bigg Edd Roush, Admiral Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter, and Son of Sam victim Christine Freund) from 9:30 a.m. to noon. A link will be sent to all chapter members before the meeting. Members may begin gathering on the site at 9:00 to chat.
Two research presentations have been approved:
- Ed Wehling on baseball jerseys
- Joe Niese on Zack Wheat
One presentation slot will be reserved for a first-time presenter until four weeks before the chapter meeting (April 10). New, never-before-presenting presenters are highly encouraged to present and may submit a proposal to any member of the Research Committee: Brenda Himrich, Sarah Johnson, Dan Levitt, Jim Cox, Doug Skipper, Stew Thornley, Rich Arpi, Dave Lande, Anders Koskinen, Hans Van Slooten, Gene Gomes, Ed Wehling, Mike Haupert, and Bob Tholkes.
The business meeting will include the election of four members to two-year terms on the board of directors. Any member interested in running may contact Dave Lande.
Other Events
The Research Committee will meet on Zoom January 11 and February 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Anyone wanting to participate may contact co-chairs Brenda Himrich or Stew Thornley, 651-415-0791.
The Halsey Hall Chapter Book Club will meet virtually Saturday, February 6 (which is Babe Ruths birthday) at 9:30 a.m. The book selection is Pouring Six Beers at a Time and Other Stories from a Lifetime in Baseball by Bill Giles.
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 on hold for a while, either until it is safe to gather indoors again or nice enough to meet outdoors.
Keep up to date with chapter activities on social media:
SABR Halsey Hall Chapter Facebook page
Halsey Hall Chapter Twitter page
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Keep up to date with chapter activities on social media:
SABR Halsey Hall Chapter Facebook page
Halsey Hall Chapter Twitter page
Please visit both pages, and, if you havent yet, Like the Facebook page and Follow the Twitter page and set your notifications to be alerted to new posts.
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Who Pitched the Second-Most No-Hit Innings in a Game?
Who threw the second-most hitless innings to start a game? He is one of six different pitchers (who did it seven times) to start a game with at least 10 hitless innings. Who are the others?
For the answers, see:
Lost in the Ninth: No-Hitters Broken Up in the Ninth Inning 1871-1960
Here is a companion page to one with a list of all no-hitters broken up in the ninth inning since 1961:
Lost in the Ninth: No-Hitters Broken Up in the Ninth Inning Since 1961
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New Members
Carol Castle grew up in Minneapolis listening to her dad read Bill Veeck stories at bedtime. She played and read baseball, and her most notable baseball moments are when the Twins have done well.
Carol had two kids, a son who died three years ago and a daughter who lives in Indiana. She founded Wrestling 4 Life, a program within the Minnesota Wrestling Hall of Fame dedicated to stopping the suicide epidemic of first responders, and Life Coins, a mission to put a Life Coin in the pocket of every first responder in the country.
She spends her time reading old baseball books, gardening when possible, working with her dogs, and traveling to different law enforcement agencies speaking and teaching about the Life Coins.
Carol learned about SABR through Facebook and is excited for when she will be able to join in-person events.
Carol shares her January 19 birthday with Chick Gandil, Rich Gale, Jon Matlack, Dolly Stark, Byung-Hyun Kim, Phil Nevin, Anthony Young, Brad Mills, Chris Sabo, Robert E. Lee, Dolly Parton, Ed Allan Poe, Tippi Hedrin, Junior Seau, Joe Kelly (World War II general, not the whiny pitcher with the Dodgers), Janis Joplin, Shelley Fabares, Hopalong Hannigan, Minnesota Fats, and Bart the Bear.
Also new to the Halsey Hall Chapter: Mike Klingensmith and Erik Sjogren
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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Saints and Twins Closest Ever?
The question has come up as to whether the Twins and Saints will become the closest major-league parent and top farm team in history in 2021. The distance from CHS Field in St. Paul to Target Field in Minneapolis has been measured as 10.4 miles. Were the distances between the Polo Grounds and Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City or Yankee Stadium and Bears/Ruppert Stadium in Newark closer (when the New York Giants had Jersey City and the New York Yankees had Newark as a top affiliate)? Prompted by the offer of a beer from a Halsey Hall Chapter member, Dan Cichalski of Clifton, New Jersey, and his wife drove the shortest routes between these ball park sites. Yankee Stadium to their former farm teams park in Newark was 18.4 miles; the distance from the Polo Grounds to where the Giants top affiliate used to play was 16.4 miles. Dan wrote up the journeys in a blog:
With Clubs in NJ, the Yankees and Giants Kept Their Top Affiliates Close
It has been pointed out that in 1914 and 1915 the Cleveland teams of the American League and American Association both played at League Park in Cleveland. If this was considered to be a parent-affiliate relationship, it would make it the shortest distance (0). Both Cleveland teams had the same owner, who could transfer players back and forth, although scholars can debate if it was really an arrangement comparable to the working relationships between major- and minor-league teams today.
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Cow Pies
Two chapter members (including Frank White with They Played for the Love of the Game: Untold Stories of Black Baseball in Minnesota) made the Minnesota Monthly list of 10 Must-Read Minnesota Sports Books From the Past Decade.
The first batch of game stories from SABRs Babe Ruth book have been put on the web site, including these:
July 9, 1920: Bambino Homers on Babe Ruth Day at the Polo Grounds and June 13, 1921: Ruths Yankees Knock Out Cobbs Tigers as Babe Reaches Polo Grounds Bleachers by T. S. Flynn.
Mike Haupert and Steve Smith also have articles in the Babe Ruth book.
Here is one from the First Games Back project of the SABR Games Project:
July 28, 2020: Twins Highlight George Floyd and Racial Justice in Home Opener
And two from the SABR BioProject: Ralph Bell by Terry Bohn and Andy Oyler.
The Fall 2020 edition of the newsletter of the SABR Business of Baseball Committee is available for downloading: Outside the Lines. It contains two articles by Mike Haupertone a history of the Chicago Cubs franchise in the 19th Century and the other on the birth of the Negro League and an update on the team employee directory, a project headed by Dan Levitt.
The December 2020 newsletter of the Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter of SABR is now available for downloading: Keltners Hot Corner. It contains the usual good stuff such as a Sabermetrics Primer by Dave Weller and recaps and links to recent chapter Zoom meetings with an official scorer and with Tom Flanagan, vice president of minor league operations for the Milwaukee Brewers.
A number of chapter members, including Daniel Dorff, Dan Levitt, Brenda Himrich, and Tom Flynn, were part of the December 16 Zoom meeting of the New York Giants Preservation Society, which serendipitously had scheduled Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president Bob Kendrick as the speaker. Kendricks topic was going to be the museum and the New York Giants, but the focus changed after the announcement earlier in the day that the Negro Leagues would be recognized as major leagues. Kendrick was still able to devote an hour-and-a-half for the group even though he was in demand from media outlets across the country. Major League Baseball today started the process of rewriting American history, said Kendrick, who interspersed stories about players from Lou Brock to Josh Gibson (Imagine Bo Jackson as a catcher. Thats Josh Gibson.) with a summary of planned activities for the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues. The celebrations got derailed by the pandemic, including a trip to Indianapolis to commemorate the first Negro League game and the placement of a new gravestone for Oscar Charleston. A Tip Your Cap day in June, with all current players tipping their caps to the Negro Leagues, was canceled since baseball wasnt happening then. Kendrick turned it into a virtual tip your cap as many celebritiesincluding all four living ex-presidentstook a picture or video of them tipping their caps. (See Tipping Your Cap.) A video of the meeting is online: New York Giants Preservation Society meeting of December 16, 2020
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Thought for the Month
The essential mystery of baseballwhat goes on between pitcher and batterremains forever hidden in plain sight.
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Calendar
January 11Research Committee meeting, 7:00-9:00 p.m. via Zoom. For more information, contact Brenda Himrich, 651-415-0791.
February 6Book Club via Zoom, 9:30 a.m., Pouring Six Beers at a Time and Other Stories from a Lifetime in Baseball by Bill Giles.
February 8Research Committee meeting, 7:00-9:00 p.m. via Zoom. For more information, contact Brenda Himrich, 651-415-0791.
May 8Fall Virtual Chapter Meeting, 9:30 a.m. (with social at 9:00). For more information, contact Howard Luloff, 952-922-5036.
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Board of Directors 2020-2021
PresidentDave Lande
Vice PresidentHans Van Slooten
SecretaryAnders Koskinen
TreasurerJerry Janzen
Jim Cox
Gene Gomes
Frank Kadwell
Events Committee ChairHoward Luloff
Research Committee Co-Chairs and Co-Chair-in-waitingBrenda Himrich, Stew Thornley, Gene Gomes
Membership Committee ChairFrank Kadwell
The Holy Cow! EditorStew Thornley
WebmasterJohn Gregory
Ass. WebmastersFrank Kadwell, Hans Van Slooten, and Stew Thornley
Social Media DirectorsTom Flynn, Twitter; Bob Komoroski, Facebook
Halsey Hall Chapter Web Page
Past issues of The Holy Cow! are available on-line.
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