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I had a good-field-no-hit high school baseball career back in the early 1960s: three hits in 27 at bats, but one of them was epic. We were facing a scary-good Springfield HS right-hander named Mike Davison. You could hear his fastball coming at you, but you couldn't really see it. Totally coincidentally, my bat failed to get out of the way of one of those fast balls, and the result was a grand slam home run over the center field fence. We still lost 11-5. RIP, Mike Davison, and thanks for allowing me to say that I did it against a future MLB pitcher.
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Bob Randall, The Twin Who Moved Rod Carew To First Base
Deke replied to Al from SoDak's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Bob Randall was the player I was most inclined to add to the Twins Players Project, but am happy that Al of SoDak beat me to it, because he is better informed. During the summer of 1965 I was a college student whose summer job was driving truck and/or combine on a harvest crew following the wheat harvest from southern Oklahoma up to the Canada border. For a week or more we cut wheat for a farmer in Grinnell, in northwestern Kansas. The lights were on at the local ballfield one evening. The local Junior Legion team was playing. The shortstop, a kid from nearby Gove, KS, was playing on a different skill level than anyone else on the field. I asked, and was told that his name was Bobby Randall. I wondered what would become of him. A decade later I got my answer when he became the Twins' second baseman.