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The Newsletter of the Halsey Hall Chapter
Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
May 2005
Details Set for May 21 Chapter Meeting
Subscription Renewals Due July 1
Top Chapter Moments
Weekend in K. C.
Kudos for the Karns
Rekela Recuperating
May Birthdays
Calendar
Board of Directors
Details Set for May 21 Chapter Meeting
Time: 9 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. (registration at 8:30).
Place: Community United Methodist Church, 950 Gould Avenue, Columbia Heights 55421-3905, 763-788-9009.
Registration fees: $15, which includes lunch (pizza) and morning refreshments; $7 for the meeting only. Those wanting food must contact meeting coordinator Howard Luloff (2509 Princeton Court, St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55416, 952-922-5036, hfan77@webtv.net) by Saturday, May 14.
Research presentations (9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 2 p.m.):
- My 1st and 2nd Major League GamesLee Temanson
- Bob CaseyHoward Luloff
- American Association GravesRex Hamann
- Marathon GamesPhil Lowry
- New Ideas for Baseball StatisticsBob Strauss
Featured guest (11 a.m. to noon): Daron Sutton, television announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers. The son of Hall of Fame pitcher Don Sutton, Daron Sutton was batboy for the Brewers when his dad played for them, and he had his own professional pitching career, with Boise in the Northwest League in 1992.
Business meeting (during lunch from noon to 1 p.m.): At the business meeting, four members will be elected to two-year terms to the Halsey Hall Chapter board of directors. The declared candidates to this point are Chuck Blomquist, Howard Luloff, Gregg Nelson, and Bob Tholkes. Any additional candidates wishing to have their names on the printed ballot must contact nominating committee chair Fred Buckland (952-835-7644, fpbuckland@qwest.net) by May 14. Additional nominations will be solicited from the floor during the business meeting.
Trivia contest (2 to 2:15 p.m.)
The Keltner-Badger State SABR Chapter will also be attending the meeting, and the group will attend that evenings Twins-Brewers game at the Metrodome. The Quicksteps and Cream Citys of Milwaukee vintage base ball team will perform an exhibition prior to the Twins-Brewers game. The Quicksteps and Cream Citys will also be playing a match in Columbia Heights at the conclusion of the chapter meeting.
Subscription Renewals Due July 1
Subscriptions to receive a printed copy of The Holy Cow! in the mail each month will be $15 annually starting July 1. The reason for the increase is that the newsletter will be produced only in a web-based format; as a result, the newsletter will contain more pages, which will increase copying and perhaps postage costs.
Subscribers who have paid on a multi-year basis will not have to pay the increased amount if their subscriptions already extend through 2005-06; others must send a check for $15, made out to Halsey Hall SABR, by July 1 to Rich Arpi, 2445 Londin Lane East, Unit 410, Maplewood, Minnesota 55119-5547.
On an administrative note, the chapter treasurer will be responsible for making sure that hard copies of the newsletter are distributed to subscribers, although this responsibility may be delegated to another member. Brian Mohr has agreed to handle this task beginning with the July newsletter.
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Top Chapter Moments
Noting that 2005 marks the 20th anniversary of our regional group becoming a formal chapter, Howard Luloff has identified several memorable moments and seeks other nominations for the top events in the chapters history. You can vote for your favorite moment from those Howard has listed below or nominate other moments by contacting Howard (see his contact information in the above article). Here are Howards top five:
- The Halsey Hall Chapter hosts the 1988 SABR National Convention.
- Our first official chapter meeting in 1985 at the Normandy Inn.
- Stew Thornley is elected vice president of the national SABR organization.
- Cary Smith wins the individual trivia contest at the 2004 SABR National Convention in Cincinnati.
- The first chapter road trip to Iowa in 1991. Several members went to Des Moines and Waterloo.
Weekend in K. C.
Several chapter members are considering a jaunt to Kansas City this summer for part or all of a Twins-Royals series from Thursday, July 7 through Sunday, July 10. Although it will be up to individual members to arrange their own carpooling and travel, Tom Swift has agreed to provide some degree of central coordination, which may include buying tickets in advance for one of the games. Contact Swifty (507-645-2280, tomswift@nickelcurves.com) if you plan on going.
Kudos for the Karns
St. Cloud Cathedral baseball coach Bob Karn won his 500th career game in April, becoming only the fourth Minnesota high-school coach to reach that level.
Jim Karn, Bobs brother and fellow SABR member, also coaches the team. Both are on the board of directors of the Minnesota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame, and Jim is a 2001 inductee of the Hall of Fame.
Rekela Recuperating
George Rekela had a stroke on March 31. Following visits by several SABR members at the hospital, George is at home. Feel free to send him a note or card at 8801 Greenhaven Drive, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota 55445.
May Birthdays
2Gregg Nelson and Ray Luurs (also Eddie Collins, Clay Carroll, Larry Cheney, Gates Brown, Ross Barnes, Ed Bressoud, Keith Moreland, Hideki Irabu, Felix Jose, Baron Manfred von Richtofen, and Johnny Unitas)
8Mike Haupert (also Norman Turkey Stearnes, Todd Greene, Dan Brouthers, Ross Barnes, Edd Roush, Dennis Leonard, Steve Braun, Mike Cuellar, Chet Hoff, Dasher Troy, and Harry Truman)
9Franklin Aasen (also Tony Gwynn, Floyd Robinson, Billy Jurges, Lew Drill, Joe Borden, Billy Joel, and Lindsay Whalen)
10Scott Iwen (also Herb Carneal, Pete Schourek, Robby Thompson, Jim Hickman, Merritt Ranew, Ed Barrow, and John Wilkes Booth)
14Frank Marx (also Ed Walsh, Earle Combs, Tony Perez, Bob Thurman, Dennis Martinez, Dick Howser, Roy Halladay, Sophie The Trophy” Kurys,and George Lucas)
15Tom Goldstein (also George Brett, Justin Morneau, Al McBean, John Smoltz, Hideki Irabu, and Emmitt Smith)
17Nick Vetter (also Cool Papa Bell, Billy Hoeft, Carlos May, Pascual Perez, Jose Guillen, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Mia Hamm)
20Howard Luloff (also Bobby Murcer, Jim Lyttle, Todd Stottlemyre, Ken Boyer, Wilcy Moore, Sadaharu Oh, and Hal Newhouser)
21Harry Harrison (also El Tappe, Mark Quinn, Eddie Milner, Barry Latman, Larry Rosenthal, Kent Hrbek, Harvard Eddie Grant, Mace Brown, Bobby Cox, Earl Averill, Al Franken, Mr. T, and Jeffrey Dahmer)
23Joel Rippel and Halsey Hall (also Lawrence S. Ritter, Zack Wheat, Dummy Hoy, Buck Showalter, Reggie Cleveland, Frosty Thomas, Deacon Phillippe, and James Eads, Stephen Douglas, and Scatman Crothers)
24Peter Schilling (also Joe Oeschger, Bartolo Colon, Greg Briley, Carlos Febles, Jim Duckworth, Gary Burghoff, Priscilla Presley, and Bob Dylan)
25Terry Prendergast (also Martín Dihigo, Jason Kubel, Miguel Tejada, Bob Knepper, Don Liddle, Joe Judge, Lip Pike, Al Reach, and Sheryl Swoopes)
26Jack Stanton (also Travis Lee, Darrell Evans, Joe Altobelli, Stoney McGlynn, and Sally Ride)
27Paul Swanson and Dan Hardy (also Jeff Bagwell, Todd Hundley, Frank Thomas, Jerry Kindall, Fred Bruckbauer, Jim Holt, Pinky Higgins, Hubert Humphrey, and Hank Kissinger)
28Galin Jones and Larry Zorn (also Jim Thorpe,
Warren Giles, Willard Hershberger, Kirk Gibson, and Jerry West)
31Jim Thielman and Glenn Poser (also Kenny Lofton, Tippy Martinez, Mac Suzuki, Joe Orsulak, Ray Washburn, Joe Namath, Clint Eastwood, Don Ameche, and Madge Blake)
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Calendar
May 14Hot Stove Saturday Morning, Bakers Square, 66th and Xerxes, Richfield, 9:00 a.m., Mark Johnson: 612-822-9638, mjohn@mr.net
May 21Spring Chapter Meeting, United Methodist Church, Columbia Heights, Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., Howard Luloff: 952-922-5036, hfan77@webtv.net
June 11Book Club Meeting, Barnes & Noble, Edina, 9:30 a.m., Three Nights in August by Buzz Bissinger, Tom Swift: 507-645-2280, tomswift@nickelcurves.com, http://halseyhall.org/bookclub.html
Halsey Hall Chapter
Board of Directors 2004-05
PresidentStew Thornley
Vice PresidentCary Smith
SecretaryChuck Blomquist
TreasurerRich Arpi
Kyle Eliason
Gregg Omoth
Tom Swift
The Holy Cow! EditorStew Thornley
WebmasterDeano Thilgen
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
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