A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1924.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: • Happy Birthday, Tom Johnson and Denny Hocking • Twins Trade Ramos for Power and Stigman • First MLB Game at Target Field April 2 Happy Birthday, Tom Johnson Happy birthday to former Twins pitcher Tom Johnson, born in St. Paul in 1951. He had a stellar season out of the Twins .
Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. Board Chair Dennis Bassett, right, shows his appreciation for Richard Siebert's many years of service to the company with a smooch on the cheek at this
NAPLES, FLA. – The Twins and the Gophers baseball program have had a close relationship almost from the moment it was announced on Oct. 26, 1960, that the original Washington Senators would be moving to an erector set of a stadium in Bloomington, Minn. Establishing a quick connection with the Gophers was wise public relations, since four months earlier — on June 20 — coach Dick Siebert's club .
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Dick Siebert was hired as Gophers baseball coach in 1948 and became a Minnesota legend. He died in December 1978 at age 66. He had taken the Gophers to five College World Series, and with presidential election year championships in 1956, 1960 and 1964. George Thomas, a former big leaguer, had been Siebert's assistant for six years and replaced him. Thomas stayed three seasons, then departed, .
Overall, citizens throughout Genesee County supported measures to keep incumbents in place, add a tax to ensure services at Byron-Bergen library, and include Batavia and all small city schools in
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