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Baseball Bookshelf almanac, Feb. 11

February 11, 2013

Lest we forget: 1950 – Kiki Cuyler, outfielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1898) Hazen “Kiki” Cuyler: A Baseball Biography, by Ronald Waldo, McFarland 2012. 2011 – Chuck Tanner, outfielder, manager (b. 1928) Chuck Tanner’s baseball playbook, by Tanner with Jim Enright, Rutledge/Mayflower Book, 1981 Also on this date: 1985 – Minnesota Twins first baseman […]

Tagged as: Andrew Zimbalist, baseball commissioner, Bud Selig, Chuck Tanner, Kent Hrbek, Kiki Cuyler, Robin Yount

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Literary birthday (and then some) greetings

May 21, 2011

Minnesota hometown favorite Kent Hrbek turns the big five-oh today. Surprisingly, he was an All-Star just once, finishing second in the AL Rookie of the Year voting in 1982 and MVP voting two years later. He lent his name to Kent Hrbek’s Tales from the Minnesota Twins Dugout in 2007. Also born this date (in […]

Tagged as: Jimmy Stewart, Kent Hrbek, Minnesota Twins, Monte Stratton

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