A dozen chapter members and guests shed their coats, shut off the hot stove, munched on barbecue fare and looked forward to a new season of baseball on Saturday.
-Jan Larson brought a trivia quiz of random baseball tidbits, won by Tom Thayer. Runner-up was Ira Siegel. For his efforts, Tom took home a Kyle Seager bobble-head while Ira won a Franklin Gutierrez bobble-head.
Some of the topics included Mike Trout’s record contract, Ichiro Suzuki’s retirement, and the SABR Project, Eight Myths Out, a deep dive into examining what we know, and have been told, about the infamous Black Sox Scandal in 1919. The collection of articles debuted earlier in the week. For more information about Eight Myths Out, click this link: https://sabr.org/eight-myths-out
An Ichiro Suzuki jersey and Mariners cap were worn in recognition of Ichiro’s recent retirement. Other baseball gear making appearances were a Royals cap and shirt; a t-shirt recognizing Dodgers’ spring training camps; a Cleveland Indians cap; and a Fukuoka Daiei Hawks cap. Tom Wancho wore a t-shirt that commemorated the “original” Friday Night Lights – the first football stadium in Texas to have lights was at New London in 1940.
This was the 148th consecutive month in which the chapter has met.
Next meeting is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Sunday, April 14, at the Macaroni Grill at the Arboretum in North Austin. A request for RSVPs will go out on our email list next month.
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