Early Christmas List Inclusion
You'll recall, perhaps, the discussion we careened into, during the Santana to the Yankees talks, about Joba and then about Chief Bender. First Minnesotan in the Hall of Fame, greatest Native American ballplayer of all time.
There's a new book out about him that sounds pretty interesting: http://www.salon.com/sports/daily/?last_story=/sports/daily/feature/2008/05/23/bender/
It is actually pretty amazing to think that this guy was playing in the majors not in the 1940's or something, but less than 15 years after Wounded Knee.
2 Comments:
MCA - Thanks for the recommendation. Interesting stuff. Never heard of him before your post.
May 23, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Very interesting, dude. I didn't realize he was the only MN born hall-of-famer until Molitor came around.
May 27, 2008 at 2:54 PM
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