Recent content by coolhandgopher

I thought I had it with legendary naughty name Rusty K. but turns out I had already used him. My Twins/Cleveland was unique-early era relief ace and Nimrod, MN’s pride, Dick Stigman. My other accomplishment today was vaulting Gary Gaetti into my big board (top 20); my goal is to have all Twins...

A friend of mine who lived in Rhinelander had an obit clipped out and on the fridge of a woman where it was mentioned her enjoyment in clipping coupons out of the newspaper. We marveled at its inclusion, but at least it wasn’t the lede.

The purveyor of Twins Almanac is also a treasure trove for unique players-recently he posted a 1964 HR leaders that featured several Twins on the board along with several other fairly obscure players. I need to study up on it, as it’s getting harder and harder to identify new players for the grid.

Like I haven’t thought about that 😉

The most interesting piece of this obituary is the mention of Little Delhi, Iowa. As I currently reside in the more well known Delhi, I was curious about what these two municipalities share in common-turns out, not much! The entire population of Delhi, IA (last count, 420) would be equivalent to...

Just when I was ready to start caring about MLB beyond the local team again. Guess I will be watching old episodes of Home Run Derby and TWIB to feed the baseball appetite.

Really taking dry January to the extreme, aren't you? ;) I'm about in the same boat as you--I might think early in the week that it'll be nice to cap the work week off with a beer and by the time Friday night arrives, I don't need any relaxants--being on the other side of 50 does have its benefits!

Carl Hubbell would like a word ;) https://baseballhall.org/discover/inside-pitch/carl-hubbell-strikes-out-five-hofers

I was finally able to use Twins super-scout Angelo (or Tony) Giuliani yesterday, in the Dodgers/played catcher square. The St. Paul native was responsible for signing Hrbek, Laudner, Eisenreich, Castino, among others throughout his post-playing days with the Twins, along with developing the...

His most recent album, which I downloaded after the Emmys, is great to listen to, and his other albums are equally fun, entertaining and rhythmic. I can’t give a great assessment of his whole catalog/career, but everything I have listened to, I have enjoyed.

Best show this side of Prince, IMO. He had our home shaking our asses as we are getting ready for a Monday work week.

I had a similarly great day with unique players-partially fueled by our recent conversation about poultry-related named players (Turkey Stearnes and Goose Tatum), the discovery of the Preachers not named Roe whose experience was in the Negro Leagues, a couple of Cuban born players in the Negro...

I came across this article yesterday and found it quite enjoyable and coalesced many of my thoughts about NFL owners. The Wilfs' aren't specifically mentioned (Woody Johnson, Jerry Jones, Dan Snyder, David Tepper get most of the print) and while Vikings' ownership has been stable since their...

I'm surprised more mention hasn't been made of Task on here. I finished last week, with the last three episodes in one sitting. It ranks really high on the list of best TV shows I've watched, and for limited series, maybe #1 all-time. Ruffalo is such an outstanding actor and the combination of...

Thank you for the Bertoia insight, I never knew and will have to tuck him away in the memory bank. My top row was clean newbies: Sergio Ferrer Chris Latham Luke Hughes I'd been sitting on those first two for awhile, Ferrer because he makes me think of the actor Jose Ferrer and Latham as he...