Tonight is the 107th Midnight Sun Baseball game. The Alaska Goldpanners take the field against the Everett Merchants. The first pitch is at 10:30pm at Growden Memorial Park. The game is played entirely without artificial lights.
Enjoy The Solstice… it’s all down hill from here…
This Just in From the St. Paul Pioneer Press:
The St Paul Saints will host “Bounty Night” on September 1st at Midway Stadium when the hometown Saints take on the Wingnuts of Wichita.
“The team will donate $100, $200, $300 and $400 to researchers studying the long-term effects of sports concussions for every Saints player who respectively singles, doubles, triples or homers.”
Leave it to Mike Veeck, the owner of the Saints, who once promoted a bobblehead with two feet under a bathroom stall in honor of former Idado Senator Larry Craig.
So get out to Midway on 1 September for a good cause. I’d be there but that’s moose opener.
Photo courtesy of http://www.saintsbaseball.com
Wilson Ramos, the former top catching prospect of the Minnesota Twins who was traded to the Washington Nationals, has been kidnapped in his native Venezuela. Ramos was back with family and playing in the Venezuelan Winter League, when four armed men arrived at Ramos’ mother’s home and forced Ramos into a vehicle before fleeing.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen now,” said Enrique Brito, a longtime official in the Venezuelan winter league who is close with Ramos’s family. “It’s going to be bad for the culture, for the league, for everything. Wilson is one of the best players that we had. It’s bad. It’s real bad, for all Venezuelan people and fans. We are all shocked.”
Let’s hope that Wilson is released soon, and this doesn’t turn into a tragedy like the case of Henry Blanco’s brother, who was kidnapped & killed even as Blanco negotiated for his release.
We live in an insane world.
Killebrew hits his 49th home run vs. Chicago in 1969
Rest in peace Harmon.
