KOM League Flash Report for Week of Dec. 18, 2016. Photo taken by Flash Report editor of a shepherd, along with editor's daughter and two great grandchildren.

The KOM Flash Report

for

Week of December 18, 2016

 

 

Nearing the end of 2016 marks the 23rd year the news of the KOM league has been shared with both eager and reluctant readers. Some of those in the reluctant category are most apt to ignore these reports.

 

As usual, I’m sharing the news of those who have recently passed away and other tidbits of news received from sources such as the family of one of my favorite people of all time, Stan Musial. In this most likely final Flash Report, of 2016, I’m sharing a story of an individual who probably was one of the greatest practitioner of his craft, after leaving baseball. The guy followed a life of crime. I had to do some creative writing to conceal his name from immediate recognition, but some readers, using their own creativity, will be able to figure it out if they have the desire to do so.

 

To save the day, a letter was received from Bill Clark, former big league scout and long-time umpire. His letter proves, once more, that no matter the names that are placed in these reports, they are recognized by someone.

 

So, off we go.

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Death of 1950 Iola Indian--Tom Mee

 

DECEMBER 2, 2016 BALLARD SUNDER FUNERAL HOME

 

Tom Mee, of Prior Lake, passed away peacefully on December 2, 2016 at the age of 88. A visitation will be held on Tuesday, December 6, 2016 from 4:00 – 8:00 PM at Ballard-Sunder Funeral & Cremation, Prior Lake. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 11:00 AM with visitation from 9:30 – 11:00 AM at St. Michael Catholic Church in Prior Lake. Father Tom Walker will preside and Tom’s grandsons will act as urn bearers. Tom will be laid to rest at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred.

 

On July 12, 1928, Thomas Arthur Mee was born to James and Claire Mee. He was an active boy, and at a young age, Tom discovered baseball. He was a great shortstop, and loved to play. Soon baseball was Tom’s biggest passion, and it played a very important role throughout his entire life.

 

After graduating from Cretin High School, Tom enlisted in the United State Army. He was stationed in Yokohama, Japan until he was honorably discharged in 1947. During his service, Tom played for the Army’s baseball team, and his love for the game grew deeper. Following his discharge, Tom returned to the Twin Cities to attend the University of Minnesota where he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism. He also played for the Golden Gophers baseball team and started a long line of Gopher ballplayers in his family. After school, Tom played in the Minor Leagues for the Cleveland Indians franchise.

 

Soon after retiring as a ballplayer, Tom moved to Montana. It was in Montana that he met his wife, Noreene, a teacher and Minnesota native. The two exchanged wedding vows in Noreene’s hometown, Effie, Minnesota on June 12, 1954. After their honeymoon, they returned to Lewistown, Montana, where Tom was a radio disc jockey and sportscaster.

 

Next, Tom’s work brought them to Clovis, New Mexico where he worked as a disc jockey, sportscaster and TV weatherman. They made many wonderful friends and started their family there. In 1957, the Mees moved back to Minnesota when Tom was offered a position with the Triple A St. Paul Saints. Tom and Noreene were happy to be back home to raise their family. They were blessed with six wonderful children, Tom, Jr., Terri, John, Tim, Joe and Liz. When the kids were young, Tom passed on his love for baseball to the entire family. The boys loved playing baseball with their dad and all of the neighborhood kids. Tom was all-time pitcher for the neighborhood. He made sure every kid in the neighborhood played and had a good time.

 

When the Twins came to town, and Tom was the first employee for the club. He worked as the Public Relations Director for the Minnesota Twins for 30 years. In addition to his PR duties, he filled in on Twins radio and TV broadcasts, doing over 200 games. Tom was fond of saying, “I didn’t go to work every day, I went to my hobby.” During his career with the Twins, Tom was awarded the Robert O. Fishel Award for Excellence in Public Relations, The Herb Carneal Lifetime Achievement Award and, in 2013 was inducted into the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame. He was also the unofficial American representative for the Hanshin Tigers of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball League.

 

Tom was known for his kindness and gentleness and was frequently complimented as “such a nice guy.” He treated everyone equally no matter if you were a broadcaster for a national network or a small town reporter. He worked very hard throughout his life, and he loved every minute of it. After retiring in 1991, Tom became the official scorer for the Twins. He did that for 17 years. Although baseball was Tom’s favorite past time, he also had other hobbies. He enjoyed golf, organizing weekly rounds for a group of friends. He booked the weekly rounds and kept the stats for each golfer. Tom though, mostly enjoyed spending time with his family. Tom was a faithful Catholic.

 

About a year ago, Tom suffered from a stroke, and he never fully recovered. On Friday, December 2, 2016, Tom went to be with the Lord. He had spent his last few days surrounded by the family that he loved so much.

 

Tom will be deeply missed and remembered always by his wife, Noreene; children, Tom Jr. (Jane), Terri Hermanson, John, Tim (Vicki), Joe (Cyndi), and Liz (Darryl) Scott; grandchildren, Tom Mee III, Mike (Anne) Mee, Christy Hermanson, Jenny Hermanson, Andrea Mee, Kevin Mee, Travis Mee, A. J. Mee, Kinsey Mee, Casey Scott, Ryan Scott and Chris Scott; Great-granddaughters, Gabby, Paige and Grace; sister, Mary Beth Mee; other loving relatives and friends.

 

There to greet Tom in Heaven is his son-in-law, Ken Hermanson; brothers, Jim Mee and Mike Mee; and many dear friends.

 

More links to Tom Mee

 

Tom MEE Obituary - Prior Lake, MN | Pioneer Press - Legacy.com

www.legacy.com/obituaries/twincities/obituary.aspx?n=tom-....

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6 days ago - Tom MEE Obituary. Age 88, of Prior Lake Passed away on December 2, 2016 Visitation is Tuesday, December 6, 2016 from 4:00 - 8:00 PM at ...

Tom Mee - Ballard-Sunder Funeral & Cremation

www.ballardsunderfuneral.com/tom-mee/

 

Dec 2, 2016 - On July 12, 1928, Thomas Arthur Mee was born to James and Claire Mee. He was an active boy, and at a young age, Tom discovered baseball ...

Thomas "Tom" Mee Sr. - Ballard-Sunder Funeral & Cremation

www.ballardsunderfuneral.com/thomas-tom-mee-sr/

 

Dec 2, 2016 - Tom Mee, 88 of Prior Lake passed away on December 2, 2016 at Mala Strana ... 6 from 4-8 pm at Ballard Sunder Funeral Home, 4565 Pleasant ...

1st Minnesota Twins Employee Tom Mee Passes Away At 88 « WCCO ...

 

Dec 2, 2016 - MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The man who many regard as the first employee of the Minnesota Twins has died. Tom Mee held many roles within .minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/12/02/tom-mee-death/

 

Ed comment:

 

Tom Mee and I communicated for many years. He recognized many of the names of former KOM leaguers at different venues. He remembered many of the former KOM leaguers playing at Clovis, NM when he was there in 1954 getting his feet wet in a new aspect of the game. He was readying himself for a long career in Major League baseball as an official scorer.

 

In an update to last week’s Flash Report I shared this note: “Tom Mee and Leo Christopher, infielders on the lola baseball club, left today for their homes, having been dismissed before the season's end so that they can prepare to enter college, Earl Sifers. Indians president, said. Mee lives at St. Paul, Minn., and Christopher at Rolla, Mo.” I did so to prove he had played at Iola in 1950 and to let his former teammates, still vertical, know about his passing.

 

Two of the guys who played on that team did make contact. The first was Bill Ashcraft who had this to say. “John: I'm sure that you already know this but, if not, the Leo Christopher you mentioned in your message is deceased. In fact, you probably mentioned the event in one of your prior messages. I played with him in the Browns’ system in early 1950 at Baxley-Hazelhurst in the Georgia State League. He was a good guy. When I worked for the Missouri Board of Healing Arts, one of the doctors on the Board had treated him as a patient over in Rolla.

 

You mentioned that Thomas Mee played third base for the Iola team until August 1950. What position did Leo play--he was a third baseman at Baxley. I don’t know where he went after Baxley. Enos was the Manager and felt that Leo should have been a power hitter but I don’t believe that he ever hit too many home runs.

 

As you know, I was assigned to the Iola team sometime in the summer of 1950 for about 10 days by the Browns even though they had a farm team at Pittsburg (incidentally, where my last granddaughter is enrolled-the other 3 graduating from KU or KSU). When a position opened up on the Ada Herefords, a Browns farm team in the Sooner State League, I was sent there for the rest of the season before being called into the Marines when the Korean War broke out. I don’t recall Mee and Christopher was not on the Iola team at the short time I was there.” Bill Ashcraft Overland Park

 

Ed reply:

 

Like Mee, Ashcraft also played third base just not at the same time. In fact, Iola had 10 guys who played that position in 1950. Mee and Christopher didn't make it to Iola until August.

 

Christopher played for New Iberia, LA in the Evangeline league in 1952. In 1953 he played for both New Iberia and Lafayette in that same league. In 1954 he played at Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was on the roster of Beaumont of the Texas league for a while in 1955.

 

By the way, you reported to the Iola ball club on June 15, 1950. The Iola Register newspaper shows you went to Baxley on June 19th.

 

Good hearing from you, thanks for the comments.

 

Bob Schwartz another member of the 1950 Iola Indians

 

After reading about Mee’s passing I got this note from the “Oracle of Orchard Park, NY”. “John, just perhaps, Ralph Tielsch and/or I filled Tom Mees’ spot on the Iola roster way, way back in August, 1950. Schwarz is still off your ‘O tracking reports. What’s with Tielsch?”

 

Ed reply:

 

You were playing first base in Mee's last game. He was playing third. I think I can dig out a quote from the newspaper on that.

 

Well, I dug it out. It isn’t too clear but here goes. “Sharp grounded out and Tom Mee failed with runners on second and third. Khoury would have come up in that spot if he had not had to leave the game.” You were shown in that box score of August 22nd as entering the game, late, as a pinch hitter.

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Joseph Daniel Sears

www.vickfuneralhome.com/home/index.cfm/obituaries/view/fh...

 

Obituary:

Joseph D. Sears, a resident of South Lyon, Michigan formerly of Mount Clemens, passed away on Sunday, February 28, 2016 at the age of 92.

 

He was born December 17, 1923 in Mount Clemens, Michigan to the late Joseph and Ruth Oehmke Sears.

 

After serving in the military in World War II, he returned home, and was employed as a lineman for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local #17. He was well known in the baseball community, having played in the minor leagues.

 

He will be missed by his wife Iris, his children, Robyn (Terry) Baumgarten, Daniel (Mary) Sears, Thomas Sears, Terry (Lori) Sears, Timothy Sears, and Alison Hughes, thirteen grandchildren, twenty four great grandchildren, and sister Wanda Krohe.

 

Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his sister Gloria Lee.

 

Memorial services will be private.

Contributions may be addressed to Great Lakes Caring Hospice, 23885 Denton, Suite A, Clinton Township, Michigan 48036

 

Share memories with the family at www.vickfuneralhome.com

 

Ed comment:

 

It took a very long time to track down the deceased. He was a veteran of WWII and by the time he showed up with the Blackwell, OK Broncos he was 28 years of age. That was an advanced age for anyone starting out in Class D baseball with aspirations of moving up in the game. However, he was signed by the Cubs at that time for his military service was over and most of the young men of signing age were being drafted into the Korean War.

 

In searching through the box scores of the 1952 Blackwell Broncos, Sears was found as being a catcher and outfielder in the few games in which he appeared. There were 42 other fellows who played on that team. One of those fellows was Andrew Varga, a Chicago native, who had been signed by the Chicago Cubs after he had played in the North Central Kansas Amateur Baseball League of America in 1949. Varga got the big bonus and had the distinction of playing in the major leagues before he arrived in the Class D, KOM league.

 

Another teammate Sears had was John Patrick Brosnan that some official baseball sites confuse with his older brother by three years, James Patrick, who played in the big leagues for nine years. He played long enough to get material for his book writing career.

 

It was through James Patrick Brosnan that I located his younger brother. For that act of kindness I gave him a copy of my first book “Majoring in The Minors.” Since that time both of the Brosnan brothers have passed away.

 

Now, back to the Joseph D. Sears saga. After spending two and a half decades searching for him the name Marjorie H. Heckmann appeared on my computer screen as someone who knew him. On January 30, 1945 she was admitted to the United State Cadet Nurses Corps training program at the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. It listed her address as RFD #1 in Mt. Clemens, Michigan which corresponded with the hometown of Joseph Sears. The records show Marjorie was scheduled to graduate from the military nursing training program in August of 1947. However, something wonderful happened prior to that time. World War II ended and thus on June 6, 1946 she left that program.

 

Following Marjorie Heckmann’s trail I found that she was married October 11, 1947 to….lets hear the drum roll….yes, it was Joseph Daniel Sears. That is how he was finally tracked down. It was five years after his marriage that he tried his hand in professional baseball.

 

Sears’ obituary showed that he was with the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and that was in his role as a long time employee of the Detroit Power Company.

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A former KOM leaguer’s life of crime. A thinly veiled account. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

 

During the years of writing about the KOM league about every range of human activity has been uncovered regarding the guys who played in the league.

 

When this writing effort first began, over two decades ago, a gentleman called and wanted to know if I knew where or whatever happened to one of his former teammates. At the time I didn’t know but the gentleman who inquired about his former teammate determined to locate him.

 

At this juncture I need to create some aliases so as to be able to provide the details of “One mans life of crime” without incriminating anyone. Here is the cast:

 

K. C. Donald—the gentleman making the inquiry and the top man, in one hitting category, in KOM league history.

 

Buck Rich—a pitcher on that team who was one of the top hurlers in KOM history and who made it to the major leagues.

 

G. C. Holliday—a teammate of Donald and Rich who spent his days mostly either breaking the law, running from it or living behind bars.

 

Shortly after telling K. C. Donald that I knew nothing about Holliday’s whereabouts he called to tell me he had spoken with Holliday’s probation officer and that he had just passed away shortly before that contact was made.

 

K. C. Donald called Buck Rich to tell him of Holliday’s death and Rich recalled that when he was pitching in the big leagues he had been contacted by Holliday to pay him a visit at a Federal Prison. The penal facility in which Holliday found himself was located in a National league city. He thought Rich would surely pay his old buddy a visit but that wasn’t on his radar of things to do.

 

What Rich had been told led him to believe Holliday had been sent to prison for murder. Over the years Yours truly operated under the assumption that what he had heard from Rich and Donald that Holliday had indeed committed a homicide.

 

Not being a criminal writer, although some of my sentence structures are, I basically ignored looking into the story with any tenacity. However, on a recent cold winter’s night I keyed Holliday’s name into a criminal file and there it appeared as far back as 1961. That would have fit the time frame that Rich was in the big leagues and traveling to the state where Holliday was incarcerated.

 

However, what I found that sent Holliday to jail was the crime of burglary, not murder. Holliday lived in one state and crossed the line into another state to conduct his criminal activity. At that time he was 30 years of age. I’m not sure what year he was finally paroled for his first offense but less than decade later later he was a “big time operator:” For the burgulary charge he was sentenced for a term of one to three years, according to the “Central Register of Convicts” for the state in which the felony was committed.

 

Holliday next confronted the law, at age around age 36, when he, along with nine others, plotted in his home state to rob banks in adjoining states. This won’t reveal his identity but all his crimes were committed in the Southeast quadrant of the United States. He lived, plotted, schemed and pulled of his crimes in eight states. Today, each of the states where Holliday did his dastardly deeds are members of the Southeast Conference

 

Holliday, and his fellow bank robbers, was finally caught, after a two year spree across seven states, convicted and then appealed their convictions in Federal court and three were acquitted. One of those who was acquitted married into the Holliday family. A second trip to Federal prison helped him meet others and hone his criminal inclinations and skills. His lawyers claimed he and his fellow banks robbers couldn’t be tried in a state different from the one in which the bank robberies occurred. They lost that appeal.

 

Here is an Associated Press account of that trial: From March of 1970

Accused Robber To Testify (AP) - One of 11 men charged with bank robbery and conspiracy to rob banks was expected to take the witness stand today in federal court. He is (name given), the only one of the group pleading guilty to the charges. During Tuesday's testimony, 13 bank and motel employees described a series of bank robberies and motel registrations which U. S. attorneys contend were part of a robbery conspiracy by the 11 men. Employees from banks in several Southern states said their banks were in small towns or rural areas with limited law enforcement and no burglar alarm systems. They told of finding oxygen tanks, hoses and various tools in their banks after the robberies. Innkeepers from motels in Virginia, North Carolina and Alabama testified that various individuals were registered in their motels on certain days. The ten men on trial are accused of operating a robbery group headquartered in (town named) from 1966 to 1969. They are (all were named) along with G. C. Holliday.

 

Within ten years of the bank robbery, conviction, appeal and prison term, Holliday went afoul of the law once more and that third crime landed him in prison for all but two years of his remaining time on earth.

 

Holliday played professional baseball at 20, convicted of burglary at 30, convicted of bank robbery at 36 and smuggling and other crimes and at age 50 he was still getting in trouble. He was in the midst of what one newspaper headlined “Five ill-kept persons spotted with lots of money at a local motel.” A few days later, at an abandoned airstrip, those five guys met a plane flying in with illegal cargo. It was nearly a thousand pounds of cocaine. The five guys driving down the airstrip to meet the plane were intercepted by law enforcement and a gun battle ensued. No one was killed but seven guys, five in the car and two on the airplane were arrested, including Holliday.

 

In reading the list of the five guys who were arrested as the “plane greeters” it was composed of men of varying ages, from 23 to 50, and being from numerous states. Holliday didn’t make but $150 a month in the KOM league but exactly 30 years later he faced a bond of $1M. Four months later he and his four buddies on the ground crew and the two pilots were facing a probable cause hearing in Federal Court. I read the entire 14 page document and as much as their lawyers tried, by every legal maneuver in the book, the seven drug smugglers faced the full impact of the law—Federal prison sentences.

 

When I thought the crime spree of Holliday couldn’t get any wores, it did. Right after being found guilty of the smuggling charges he attempted to pull off insurance fraud. Here is that story, hopefully edited in such a way no one can Google it . “A local a amusements vendor Bobby Jackson, cried like a baby and begged the U.S. District for mercy, but rather got two and a half year term in prison, a nearly $10,000 fine and a lecture for his role in an insurance fraud scheme. His partner, G. C. Holliday, a convicted cocaine smuggler, was sentenced to three four-year concurrent sentences for his part in the insurance deception . Jackson and Holliday. were convicted recently in federal court charges of conspiracy and using the mail to defraud the insurance company. They conspired to cheat the insurance company by reporting a car stolen and collecting the insurance. Jackson explained to the judge that he deals with all sorts of characters in his line of work, but the judge was not sympathetic.

 

What I learned by reading the legal documents at the time of the drug smuggling arrest it showed that all those involved had former criminal records. When it came to Holliday it mentioned his previous arrests and convictions were for first for burglary, later he was convicted of bank robbery.. Whew!!! That was a relief. I’ll have great news to share with K.C. Donald and Buck Rich this Christmas season. They will learn at this holiday season that their former teammate, Holliday, never killed anyone.

 

Piecing that story together it appears Holliday did his first burglary alone. He had nine accomplices in the years of his “banking career” and he had six in the cocaine smuggling operation. Maybe the poor fellow was a born loser. In his minor league pitching career he was 16 games below .500 and if you add his four losses at the courthouse he wound up 20 games below the break even point.

 

Can you imagine how much more there is to this story? I could probably find out for Holliday left behind a son who he gave both his first and middle name, making him a junior. Junior Holliday is still living in the same town where his father was born and died. However, I imagine Holliday Jr. has experienced enough in his lifetime. So, I won’t go there. And that is why Holliday’s Sr.’s real identity will be shared with only two of his former KOM teammates

 

For the junior G-Men out there the only hints I have given as to who Holliday was and where he played was to identify one of his teammates as being a future big league pitcher and another fellow who was a top hitter. There were a “ton” of top hitters and 18 former KOM league pitchers played in the big leagues. Fourteen of those guys are now deceased. That would leave very few to interview to figure out who the former KOM leagur pitcher was who turned to a life of crime.

 

In all of the crime activity, Holliday lived to be 65 and died, at home.

 

One other attempt was made and that was to find an obituary on Holliday. When I was unable to locate one contact was made with Jack Morris, the keeper of obituaries of former players. He reported back that he had never seen one and agreed with me that one was probably not written due to a lack of something good to say about the deceased.

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Bill Clark reads the Flash Reports and remembers

 

It is often said in these reports that if some name is cited at least one reader will recognize it. The following letter from Bill Clark proves it. “John: The dinosaur surfaces again. Three named popped up in the Dec. 4th Flash Report. The first was Ball High School in Galveston, Texas; the second was Knoblauch and the 3rd was Verbanic (Joe). Verbanic first.

When I was stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas, from November, 1951 to March 1953, I was one of the 4th Army Service umpires. I opened the 4th Army tournament at Ft. Hood behind home plate with a wild-throwing Bob Turley on the mound for Brooke Army Medical Center. Verbanic was on the Ft. Hood team during that 18-month period along with Jim Pisoni. They were both nice guys.

When I signed with the Reds, as the Midwest scouting supervisor, I was sent each spring to the Houston/Galveston area.

Early on, I was given the name of Bob Quiroga at Ball High School, a pitcher. The night I saw him he started in right field and the gulf fog rolled in so thick that you could hardly see him out there. When the starter ran into trouble, Bob came through the fog and threw very had, even harder in the fog and bad lights. He wound up a first round draft (choice). I never forgot him because he lived on M ½ Street in Galveston, essentially an alley.

Chuck Knoblauch’s dad, Ray was one coach at Bellaire High School in Houston. His team had won the state baseball tournament and the next year had an early season game at Alice, Texas. Nolan Ryan’s nephew (?) was the alleged high draft that was to pitch against Bellaire and there were 30 scouts on hand but no umpires. So, I was asked to go behind the plate to accommodate everyone. Ryan’s relative was KO’d in two innings and all the scouts left, but I had to finish the game. Ray and I became good friends. When he retired as a Hall of Fame high school coach, he took over maintenance of one of the city’s major sports stadiums. I followed Chuck through high school, Texas A & M and into the big leagues—even as a summer college player at Clarinda, Iowa. We are both in the Clarinda A’s Hall of Fame, a small world.

I truly enjoy the Flash Reports. I often see names that bring back memories of people and places. Tell your bride that both Ol’ Clark and his keeper, Dolores, send our best wishes for another good year. The family (Christmas) newsletter will be along before Ground Hog Day.”

 

Ed comment:

 

Right off, I had no idea anyone would pick up on the name of Joseph Robert Verbanic. I would have more likely thought someone might have confused him with Joseph Michael Verbanic who played a decade and a half later in both the minor and major leagues.

 

Joseph Robert Verbanic, who Bill Clark met at Ft. Hood, was born in 1928 in Elmira, New York. He was in the United States Marine Corps from August 11, 1945 until May 11, 1949. He had time to head west to play for the Topeka, Kansas Owls. However, he wound up playing for the Miami “Wisebirds,” in 1949.

 

On October 15, 1950 Verbanic was back in the Marine Corps and remained there until January 31, 1968. Thus, he served his country in WW II, the Korean War and Viet Nam. At the time of his departure from the Marine Corps he was a M/Sgt. Following his death on Sept. 7, 1995 in Oceanside, California, his body was sent east for burial at Arlington National Cemetery.

 

Clark also mentioned Jim Pisoni in his letter. Pisoni had played for the Pittsburg, Kansas Browns in 1950 before getting his call from Uncle Sam. The Browns had a Texas league team in San Antonio and with the nearby Brooke Army Hospital they spared no quarter in getting the Army to assign their top minor league players there so they would be able to play baseball not only for Brooke Army Medical but on some occasions with the San Antonio Missions.

 

Until I got the most recent letter from Clark I had never heard the name of “Bobo” Quiroga. That posed a challenge and I determined to learn more about him. I did figure out he was born in 1930, to immigrant parents, who named him Rodolfo. I never found any indication he made it in professional baseball but he did make it to March 27, 1996 when he passed away in Houston, Texas.

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I didn’t forgot the Musial reference

 

To start this report I mentioned Stan Musial. His daughter, Janet, has shared many things over the years and in the Christmas card for 2016 was a picture of her grandson, Mason Musial Linihan. The boy would have made his great grandfather proud. I know that since the photo reminded me of my great grandson.

 

Done