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Spring Chapter Meeting April 19
Former Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Dan Evans will be the featured speaker at the Halsey Hall Chapter spring meeting Saturday, April 19.
The meeting will be at Faith Mennonite Church, 2720 E. 22nd Street in south Minneapolis. Registration begins around 8:15 a.m. with the program starting at 8:45. The cost for the meeting and lunch is $10. People can pay by cash (with correct change appreciated) or check at the door.
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 29). If a slot remains after that, any member can submit a proposal until April 5, two weeks before the meeting, when the Research Committee will wrap up the schedule of presentations. [Note: Until after March 29, proposals only from first-time presenters will be accepted.]
Three proposals have been approved so far:
Rich Arpi, The Other 1908 Season
While most of the baseball fans in the country were enthralled with the three-way race in the National League between the Cubs, Giants and Pirates as well as the extremely close American League pennant chase between the Tigers, Indians, and White Sox, this presentation will center on how one Minnesota newspaper covered baseball during 1908.
By my perusal of the Duluth News-Tribune, I will show how coverage of the local baseball teams pre-dominated and will explain some of the goals of the expanded “Spread of Baseball in Minnesota Project.”
The project aims to expand on the work of Todd Peterson, who has recorded the games of the St. Paul Gophers and Minneapolis Keystones, and Stew Thornley, who has documented the games of the Minneapolis Millers. The Duluth paper, while covering the Duluth White Sox of the four team Class D Northern League fairly well (at least home games), also recorded games throughout Northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan. So far I have concentrated on the Hibbing, Virginia, and Eveleth town teams, whose rivalry led to the recruitment of paid players from other states, thus blurring the line between what was an amateur and a professional team.
The presentation will present spreadsheets of data wanted. This includes mainly date of game, location, score, home and road record after the documented game, total record to date, attendance, and notes giving pertinent data such as high strikeout totals, 3 homers hit, etc. Notation of the existence of a box score, line score, or just a short mention will be helpful to future research. Some team photographs will be shown. Rosters are also part of the project, which will help show how players moved from team to team and possibly fill in the careers of some more prominent players.
Finally, I will discuss how others can get involved, if they wish. I hope to create a new website that records all this information and recruit the help of others with more experience creating and maintaining a website.
Ben Ernst, Aberdeen Pheasants
Ben was responsible for securing a SABR grant to erect a historical marker commemorating the history of the Aberdeen, South Dakota, Pheasants on the site of Aberdeen Municipal Stadium, which is now on the site of Northern State University. Ben will talk about the process of getting a marker installed and also cover the great 1964 Pheasants team and their exhibition game against the parent Baltimore Orioles that year. He will cover the Northern League and some of the big names in the Orioles organization, including Jim Palmer, Earl Weaver, and Cal Ripken Sr. when the Pheasants were a Baltimore farm team.
Ben will be arriving the day before and attending a baseball game at St. Thomas. Details for joining Ben at the game and/or for post-game debauchery are below in the Upcoming Events section.
Ben will bring a book on Philbert the team mascot, one that has pictures of what the stadium looked like. He will have extra copies for sale at $25. Those who would like to purchase a book are asked to contact Ben, benernst00@gmail.com.
Mike Haupert (presenter) and Herm Krabbenhoft, Babe Ruth’s Anomalous 1929 Season: Why Did His Bases on Balls Plummet?
In his 1974 biography of Babe Ruth, Robert W. Creamer claimed that from 1926 through 1931 (his age 32 to 37 seasons), Ruth produced the “finest sustained display of hitting that baseball has ever seen.” During this stretch of dominance the Babe averaged 50 home runs, 155 RBI and 147 runs scored with a .354 batting average. He was the league leader in home runs each of those seasons, and also led the league in walks each of those years, except 1929, when he finished TENTH with a total of only 72 free passes. In the three previous seasons Ruth averaged 139 walks per season. And for the three subsequent seasons, he averaged 131 walks per season. Except for that anomalous 1929, he never drew fewer than 128 free passes during this six-year period. In fact, during his 15 years with the Yankees, Ruth drew fewer than 100 walks on only two other occasions, and both of those were seasons in which he missed significant playing time (1922 and 1925).
In this work, we seek to explain the reason for this sudden, dramatic, and short-lived deviation in Ruth’s offensive performance. Our investigation leads us from statistical analysis to financial investigations of Ruth’s income and expenditures, and finally, into the psychology literature.
While statistical analysis of Babe Ruth’s walks for the 1926-32 seasons shows that his 1929 season is a serious outlier and can be excluded with 99% confidence, Ruth actually achieved his 1929 walks - the statistics are real. We examined Ruth’s bases on balls statistics for the 1926-1932 seasons and determined that Ruth himself was the sole source of his anomalously low walks in 1929. It did not matter what pitchers he faced, where he played, what game situation existed when he batted, where he batted in the order or who batted in front of or behind him. Ruth’s low walks rate was uniform and persistent throughout the season. We find no physical, statistical, or strategic reason that can explain the dramatic decrease in his walks. Instead, we conclude that his anomalous performance in 1929 was due to the extraordinary financial situation that he faced in 1929, a year which began with the sudden and tragic death of his wife Helen, and concluded with the onset of the Great Depression—a financial catastrophe against which Ruth was remarkably well insulated. Our investigation of Ruth’s life off the diamond leads us to believe this was the cause of his change in behavior on it.
Election of Officers
The business meeting during lunch will include the election of four members to two-year terms on the board of directors to fill the spots of expiring directors Daniel Dorff, Rich Arpi, John Buckeye, and Howard Luloff. Any chapter member is eligible to run for the board and is encouraged to express interest to any of the committee members. Candidates will be asked to submit a candidate statement for the newsletter. Anyone interested may contact the nomination committee: Darryl Sannes (Chair), Dan Levitt and Bob Komoroski.
The incoming directors, along with holdovers Ed Edmonds, Mike Haupert, and Terry Bohn will elect, from among themselves, a president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer to serve a one-year term beginning July 1.
Anyone who cannot attend the meeting but would like to vote may submit a proxy vote via chapter secretary Daniel Dorff at daniel.dorff@gmail.com
Those interested in running or looking for more information are encouraged to check out the duties and functions of the various positions and committees at Chapter Procedures.
Rich Arpi is the only declared candidate for the board so far.
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Upcoming Events
The Fred Souba Hot Stove Saturday Morning, an informal breakfast gathering for the purpose of talking baseball, will be Saturday, March 1 at 9:05 a.m. at Stanley’s Northeast Bar Room, 2500 University Avenue NE (northwest corner of Lowry and University), Minneapolis 55418.
A chapter outing is planned to see the Minnesota Gophers play Purdue at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 9 at U. S. Bank Stadium. Attendees are invited and encouraged to join pre-game debauchery at Keys Cafe in the Foshay Tower at 10:30 a.m.
The Halsey Hall Chapter will be partnering with the Badger State Keltner Chapter as well as SABR chapters in Chicago and Central Illinois for a virtual meeting with John W. Miller, author of The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball on Wednesday, March 19 at 7:00 Central Time. Registration information
The now-annual SABR preview of teams in the American League Central Division will be Monday, March 24 at 7:00 p.m. Central time with John Bonnes providing the insight on the local ballers. Registration information
The next Book Club meeting will be Saturday, April 5 at Barnes & Noble in Har Mar Mall at 9:30 a.m. The book selection is Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside by Melissa Ludtke. Melissa spoke at the SABR convention in Minneapolis last August and was a guest of the Keltner Badger State Chapter in a Zoom meeting attended by several Halsey Hall Chapter members. She was to have spoken to the National Archives in March but was mysteriously postponed, canceled, or, in her words, “Trumped,” as she explained in a Substack post, Let’s Row Together.
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 Halsey Hall Chapter will be partnering with the same chapters as above for a virtual meeting with Kat Williams, chief executive officer of the International Women’s Baseball Center and author of All the Way: The Life of Trailblazer Maybelle Blair. “Blair played professional softball and also baseball for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and is now a beloved advocate for girls and women in baseball,” according to Mary Shea, who has organized the meeting. “She’s also really a hoot.” The meeting will be Thursday, April 10 at 7:00 p.m. Central Time. Registration information
Ben Ernst, who will be in town for the Spring Chapter Meeting, plans to go to the South Dakota State at St. Thomas game the day before on Friday, April 18. Game time is 3:00, and others are invited to join him for the game and/or for post-game dinner and drinks at Manning’s, 22nd and Como in southeast Minneapolis, at 6:00. (Manning’s is a rain-or-shine event; the game may not be.)
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 41 followers and the Facebook page 313 members. 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.) John Buckeye is overseeing the Bluesky page.
Also:
Regular Events
Video Archives of Past Events
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Bylaws Revision on the Horizon
Chapter leadership has begun the process of revising the bylaws to call for a new board of directors and officer structure, which, if passed, would take effect with the 2026 elections.
Currently the membership elects seven members to two-year terms on the board of directors (four in odd-numbered years and three in even-numbered years, with the election held at the spring chapter meeting) that run from July 1 to June 30. The board members them, from among themselves, elect a president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer to a one-year term.
The planned amendment calls for a direct election of a president-elect. This person would then automatically ascend to president the following year and then to past president, the latter being an ex-officio, non-voting member of the board of directors.
The secretary and treasurer would serve three-year terms, the secretary being elected by the membership and the treasurer appointed by the board.
Three directors will serve rotating three-year terms with one director elected by the membership every year.
The structure is similar to many other organizations, including the Twin Cities Civil War Round Table, according to a member of that group who says this process works well for them.
The proposed method is geared toward getting and keeping valuable experience and also getting new people involved while rotating rather than recycling officers and board members. Other details of the plan include a provision that a person completing the president-elect/president/past president cycle could not immediately run for president-elect again. A waiting period would also apply to directors, who would have to wait at least one year to run for director again.
A pre-requisite for running for president-elect would be a year of service on the board (as director, secretary, or treasurer) within the last five years.
Each spring chapter meeting a president-elect and director would be elected. Every three years a secretary would be elected. The board of directors, before the terms of new and holdover members begins on July 1, will appoint a treasurer every three years and will also appoint members to all other functions, such as committee chairs, newsletter editor, webmaster, social media directors. (All such appointments do not have term limits and could be re-appointments of existing function holders.)
The current board of directors has discussed the plan at its meetings and will present it to the membership at the April 19 chapter meeting. The board plans to solicit input from other members and then have the amendment voted on by the membership at the fall chapter meeting. If the amendment passes, the new election process will take effect with the elections at the 2026 chapter meeting.
The board will also address the transition method for the new process. Members with questions or thoughts may direct them to any board member.
[Additional note: The Twin Cities Civil War Round Table, which was mentioned above, includes several Halsey Hall Chapter members. The next meeting of this group, on Monday, March 18 in Bloomington, will feature another SABR member, Bruce Allardice, presenting on Early Baseball and the Civil War.]
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Research Roundtable
The next Research Committee meetings, via Zoom, will be March 17 and April 21 at 7:00 p.m. on Zoom.
Research projects:
Bob Tholkes is scanning the 12,000 to 13,000 references to “base ball” in 1868 available to him online and otherwise in historic newspapers as background for potential articles/presentations.
Ed Edmonds had his usual big day in his off-season research work on January 9, the day that over 100 arbitration-eligible players reach an agreement with their teams while the non-agreers exchange numbers. Ed is an expert on salary arbitration and has presented at many forums, including our chapter meetings.
Ed is a contributor, with a chapter about Larry MacPhail to a book about lawyers in baseball, Attorneys in the Hall of Fame, that is for pre-order at McFarland: Attorneys in the Hall of Fame.
Chapter members are often meeting Friday mornings at the Minnesota History Center to work on the Minnesota Spread of Baseball Project, 1857-1923 and identifying Pre-pro Clubs and Games in Minnesota.. For more information, contact Rich Arpi.
Terry Bohn is part of a group in Bismarck working to get a statue of Satchel Paige erected to go with planned renovations to Municipal Ballpark, which is on the same site where Paige pitched for a Bismarck integrated semi-pro team in 1933 and 1935. Terry also will be speaking on The Sad Tale of Dapper Dan Lally at SABR's Nineteenth Century Committee at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11. Register at 19th Century Speaker Series: Terry Bohn.
Daniel Dorff has completed a bio on Sun Daly that will be posted anon on the SABR BioProject site.
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, Anders Koskinen, 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, 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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Darryl Sannes’s Historic 40th Themed Chapter Quiz
Here is the quiz from the February Research Committee meeting:
- This pitcher was a three-sport star at Bucknell University. For a brief time, he played professional football, as well as baseball. He won 373 games in his career while never pitching on Sundays. An excellent all-around athlete he hit .215. In his first World Series he won all three games he pitched with shutouts. He wrote sports columns, a memoir, a play and a children’s book. He is buried in Lewisburg, PA.
- Ronald Reagan starred in a fictionalized movie of this baseball pitcher in 1952. He was named for the current U.S. President at the time of his birth. He also won 373 games in his career pitching for three different National League teams, finishing with the team he started with. In his post-major league career, he was the player-coach and played with and against many negro league stars.
- He stole home 54 times in his career and stole second, third and home in succession, four times. Although not a power hitter, he led the American League in home runs one year. A fiery player he was involved in several fights both on and off the field. His career batting average was .366.
- He played college baseball for the University of Michigan, managed by Branch Rickey. He was an excellent pitcher in college, pitched briefly in the majors but then played first base the remainder of his career. After sitting out with an eye problem, he started the next season with a 34-game hitting streak and following it up later in the season with a 22-game streak. His career batting average was .340.
- He never played in the minor leagues and pitched his first major league game at the age of seventeen. His team won one World Series. He threw three no-hitters and twelve, one-hit games. He pitched his entire career with one team. In a 1946 game one of his pitches was clocked at 107.6 mph. He had multiple nicknames.
- He played all of his major league seasons with one team, except the last year. He was the American League home run champ, four years and one of these years he hit 58. In his post-playing years, he was the team executive for the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox. He was the first Jewish superstar of an American team sport. He was one of very few players who publicly welcomed Jackie Robinson into the major leagues in 1947.
- His given name was Lawrence Peter. He played nineteen seasons in MLB and was an All-Star, 18 times. He played on ten, World Series Championship teams. He managed MLB teams for seven years, winning 484 games. His three sons all played professional baseball, with two playing in the major leagues. He is known more today by his “expressions, lacking logic,” then by his on-field accomplishments.
- He was named after President Theodore Roosevelt. He was so talented; he had multiple nicknames. He hit for power and for average, winning the triple crown two times, won the AL batting crown six times and was AL home run champ, four times. All of his nineteen year, MLB seasons were with the same team. He was named to the National Fishing Hall of Fame.
- He won varsity letters in four sports at UCLA, with baseball probably his worst sport. He made his professional debut with the Kansas City Monarchs. At the age of 28, he was Rookie of the Year in his first MLB season and was the NL, MVP two years later. In his ten-year MLB career, his team played in six World Series Championships, winning it in 1955.
- As a pitcher he won over 300 games, had over 3000 strikeouts and had a career ERA of under 3.00. He once struck out ten consecutive hitters. He was a 12-time All Star and 3-time NL Cy Young award winner. His #41 was retired by the New York Mets. His last win was against the Minnesota Twins.
Answers below
Art Mugalian’s The Town that Billy Sunday Couldn’t Shut Down Bonus Quiz
- This HOFer played on three World Series champions and gained fame for being the subject of a famous poem.
- This catcher and WS champion was part of a controversial play in game 4 of that WS. He set a record for most passed balls in one season, since broken. He was once traded for a man named Randy Bobb.
- This guy hit a game-winning homer in the All-Star Game and twice led his league in triples and once in doubles. If you remove the first letter of his surname you’ll get the last name of a player who made an acrobatic catch in the WS.
- This man played well into his forties but didn’t debut in MLB until age 29. He homered in his first at-bat and later tossed a no-hitter.
- This guy was a college teammate of Thurman Munson and was once described as a righthanded Sandy Koufax. He won 25 games one year and was traded for someone else on this list.
- This first baseman homered as an 18-year-old, played his entire MLB career in his hometown, and won an NL MVP. Only a 19-century legend played more seasons with his particular team than this guy did.
- This HOFer won several gold gloves and led his league four times in walks and twice in OBP. He was the first player to take advantage of the 10-and-5 rule.
- This player was his team’s first and so far only 30-30 guy. Only one player born outside the U.S. has hit more homers. He was once suspended for doing something to his bat.
- This catcher, known mainly as a fine pinch-hitter, once hit .368 in 108 games for the Phillies, though he didn’t qualify for the batting title. Twice he was traded for Andy Seminick. His career record for pinch hits stood until 1979.
- This speedster led the league five straight times in games played and seven times in caught stealing between 2001 and 2011. Four times he had seasons with at least 200 hits. Beyoncѐ mentions him in a song. His first name and initials are the same as another player who fits this theme.
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New Members
Jeff Napierala is paralegal in Minneapolis and works for a family law attorney. Other than attending St. Norbert College in DePere, Wisconsin, he has lived in Shoreview since 1988 after spending his first seven-plus years in Ottawa Hills, Ohio, which is surrounded by Toledo. He went to his first Mud Hens game before he was a year old and has memories of Mud Hens games from later in the 1980s.
Jeff played Little League and Babe Ruth baseball and went to his first Twins game in 1988. He’s been to many Twins openers, most recently in 2023, was at the third-ever game at Miller Park in Milwaukee in 2001, has also attended games at Busch Stadium in St. Louis and Progressive Field in Cleveland, and witnessed Dave Winfield’s 3,000th hit in 1993.
He has a mom, Marilyn; a little sister, Meghan; a niece (whom he raised), Joey; and a great nephew (grandson, basically), Jamie.
Born in 1980, Jeff shares his November 27 birthday with Jose Tartabull, Ivan Rodriguez, Kody Funderburk, Mike Scioscia, Jimmy Rollins, Dave Giusti, Bullet Joe Bush, Eloy Jimenez, Ted Husing, Curtis “Booger” Armstrong, Johnny Blood, Chick Hearn, Jimi Hendrix, Caroline Kennedy, Bruce Lee, Eddie Rabbitt, Steve Bannon, Anders Celsius, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Buffalo Bob Smith, and Erik Menendez.
Matt Hannah grew up in the hockey town of Coleraine but now lives in the baseball town of St. Paul, where he is a student at the University of St. Thomas.
Says Matt, “I grew up playing baseball and played through my senior year of high school both for my school and for my local legion team. Baseball history has always been a backdrop to my life thanks to my dad teaching me the stories of legends like Roberto Clemente, Rod Carew, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron growing up. My first game was actually the first ever game played at Target Field in 2010. I was lucky to be growing up right as outdoor baseball returned to Minnesota with Target Field so I have attended games there for as long as I can remember and it is like a second home for me. I’m up to games at 8 of the current MLB ballparks and hopefully will hit 2 or 3 new stadiums this summer. I feel as though I’ve seen almost every notable player currently in the MLB in the past few years but in terms of my favorite baseball moments to witness I would have to say all the games during the Twins 2019 record breaking season as well as the first round of the playoffs in 2023 when the playoff winning drought finally ended. (It had been my entire life without a playoff win and I was a freshman in college at the time so I was able to beat the allegations that I was the curse.)
“This season will be my second year working for the Minnesota Twins in a guest services role which has been an amazing way for me to stay connected with the game. Last season I also coached an American Legion baseball team with my friend in the summer in my spare time which was an amazing experience.”
Matt shares his February 1 birthday with fellow member Brent Peterson as well as Paul Blair, Jazz Chisholm, Danny Thompson, Candy Jim Taylor, Austin Jackson, Kent Mercker, Rich Becker, Carl Reynolds, Billy Sullivan, Earle Mack, Rosey Rowswell, Frank “Trader” Lane, Milt Sunde, Conn Smythe, Sherman Hemsley, Pauly Shore, Brandon Lee, Clete Roberts, Robert “Tractor” Traylor, Garrett Morris, Lisa Marie Presley, Don Everly, Ray Sawyer, Wade Wilson, Malik Sealy, Clark Gable, and Ronda Rousey.
Our chapter has welcomed 18 new members since June 1, the beginning of the SABR fiscal year reporting period, and now has 194 members.
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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Thought for the Month
From Jack McDowell’s nephew on the importance of capital letters: “It’s the difference between helping my Uncle Jack off a horse and helping my uncle jack off a horse.”
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Cow Pies
On Babe Ruth’s birthday, Steve and Janet Bratkovich went to St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church in Plymouth to hear Darryl Strawberry talk about turning his life around after multiple drug suspensions by preaching the Gospel across the country.
Active as always with baseball cards, Glenn Renick had an article, They’re Coming for Your Baseball Cards!, published on the blog of the SABR Baseball Card Research Committee, and committee co-chair wrote a follow-up article on the topic, Are Slabs Ruining Your Best Cards?
Glenn previously had published a pair of articles on the Confectionary Keystone, on the blog: Part 1 and Part 2.
The SABR Games Project has a new game story by a chapter members:
Current and past member Kurt Franke dug through his stuff as part of a recent move from St. Cloud to Roseville and found notes he had taken at a regional meeting in 1985 (the one at which the group formally organized into the Halsey Hall Chapter) along with a photo of charter member Dave Moore (above). Dave is also pictured below at a meeting two years later, surrounded by a bunch of old-timers. How many can you name?
The February 2025 edition of Keltner’s Hot Corner, the newsletter of the Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter, is on-line:
Keltner’s Hot Corner, February 2025
Past Keltner’s Hot Corner newsletters:
Keltner’s Hot Corner
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Answers to Darryl Sannes’s Historic 40th Themed Chapter Quiz
- Christy Mathewson
- Grover Cleveland Alexander
- Ty Cobb
- George Sisler
- Bob Feller
- Hank Greenberg
- Yogi Berra
- Ted Williams
- Jackie Robinson
- Tom Seaver
Theme: Hall of Famers served in the military.
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Art Mugalian’s The Town that Billy Sunday Couldn’t Shut Down Bonus Quiz
- Johnny Evers
- J. C. Martin
- Johnny Callison
- Hoyt Wilhelm
- Steve Stone
- Phil Cavarretta
- Ron Santo
- Sammy Sosa
- Smoky Burgess
- Juan Pierre
Theme: All played for the Cubs and White Sox.
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Calendar
March 1—Fred Souba Hot Stove League Saturday Morning, 9:05 a.m., Stanley’s Northeast Bar Room, Minneapolis.
March 9—Minnesota Gophers vs. Purdue Boilermakers, 1:00 p.m., U. S. Bank Stadium (with brunch at Keys Cafe in the Foshay Tower at 10:30 a.m.).
March 17—Research Committee meeting, 7:00-9:00 p.m. via Zoom. For more information, contact Dave Lande or Gene Gomes.
March 19—Joint meeting with John W. Miller, author of The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball, 7:00 p.m.
March 24—American League Central Division Preview meeting on Zoom, 7:00 p.m.
April 5—Book Club, Barnes & Noble, Har Mar Mall, Roseville, 9:30 a.m., Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside by Melissa Ludtke.
April 10—Joint meeting with Kat Williams presenting on Maybelle Blair, 7:00 p.m.
April 13—Halsey Hall Chapter Board of Directors meeting, 7:30 p.m. For more information on attending, contact Ed Edmonds.
April 18—South Dakota State at St. Thomas, Koch Diamond in St. Paul, 3:00 p.m. with post-game gathering (approximately 6:00) at Manning’s, 22nd and Como in southeast Minneapolis.
April 19—Spring Chapter Meeting, 8:45 a.m., Faith Mennonite Church, Minneapolis. For more information, contact Howard Luloff, 952-922-5036, or Bob Komoroski.
April 21—Research Committee meeting, 7:00-9:00 p.m. via Zoom. For more information, contact Dave Lande or Gene Gomes.
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Board of Directors 2024-2025
President—Ed Edmonds
Vice President—Mike Haupert
Secretary—Daniel Dorff
Treasurer—Rich Arpi
Terry Bohn
John Buckeye
Howard Luloff
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—Frank Kadwell, Hans Van Slooten, and Stew Thornley
Social Media Directors—Bob Komoroski, Facebook; John Buckeye, Bluesky; Hans Van Slooten, 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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Resources
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