Nine chapter members met Thursday, November 18 at Iron Works BBQ in downtown Austin. Off-season discussion topics were wide ranging, including current trade and free-agent market activity, the recently completed playoffs and World Series, the Cy Young voting, and the Astros’ new TV contract to appear locally on AT&T u-Verse via ROOT Sports.
Mike Dillon posed a quiz topic that we worked on as a group — With Albert Pujols recently joining the 500-home run club, could we name all the previous 500 home run hitters? There are now 26 players who have hit at least 500 career home runs. See how many you can name.
Monte Cely covered the status of the 2015 Hornsby Chapter Winter Meeting agenda. Wally Moon, 1954 NL Rookie of the Year, and Alyson Footer, MLB network national correspondent, will be our two headliners. The upcoming Winter Meeting will be held Saturday, January 10, 2015 at Texas State University. More details will be forthcoming.
Our next chapter meeting will be Tuesday, December 16 at 6pm back at Iron Works BBQ. A reminder and call for rsvp’s will be emailed to chapter members as that date approaches.