Thanksgiving Week. I’d like to thank the Kittitas County Historical Museum and Museum Director Sadie Thayer for their dedication to the preservation of local history. Today, donated this ca. 1962 Cle Elum Warriors Igni Kuzminski letterman’s sweater to the Museum.
Did you know?
Jimi Hendrix father, Al Hendrix, played semipro baseball for the Victoria Brown Bombers in 1940. This excerpt from Victoria Times Colonist, 21 August 1999, page 34.
My favorite Mariners fan factoid about Cal Raleigh:
“Babe Ruth never hit it to the rightfield upper deck at TMobile Park.”
It was claimed that Babe Ruth hit it out of Spokane’s Natatorium Park, and over the Spokane River while barnstorming in 1924.
The Ellensburg Rodeo this Labor Day weekend.
An annual reminder there are horse trailers nicer than my apartment.
Fresh off the patio make salsa day!
100 years ago, Grand Wizard DC Stephenson was arrested for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer. His 1925 conviction was the end of a populist movement of bigotry and xenophobia known as the 2nd KKK.
Today, MAGA faces their Stephenson moment. Convicted felon and suspected pedophile OR finish the circus.
A horticulture joke:
The difference between a determinate and indeterminate tomato.
“I too look forward to our benevolent overlords.” - The Simpsons
Awesome Bill from Dawsonville! Got the chance to meet him at a Ford promotional event in Auburn, Washington of all places.
Lorenzo “Piper” Davis (1917-1997) packed his bat and glove to play baseball in the PNW for the semipro 1938 Washington Browns in Yakima.
This is his 1952 Mother’s Cookies baseball card with the PCL Oakland Oaks.
79 years ago today, one of the saddest moments in Pacific Northwest baseball history.
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The Lucy Breckenridge Diary and transcription will be at, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture exhibit, “Black Families in Spokane”.
Lucy Breckenridge was the mother-in-law of baseball pioneer, Charles Allen (1894-1946).
Happy Juneteenth!
The pollinators love my neighbors lavender plants.
No Kings.
Dances were popular. Auctions were odd. Free field renovation days by school kids or local boosters were ubiquitous.
RIP Beach Boy Brian Wilson. “Catch a wave and you’re sitting on top of the world”.
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Not certain, but believe it is to cull impressionable people who are emotionally or psychologically vulnerable to propaganda from the fanbase of any sport.
Cheyenne to Little America, Wyoming. It’s Wyoming, if Yellowstone was nothing but truck stops.
Food voodoo to arrest this Mariners offensive tailspin. For those unfamiliar; the Seattle Dog is brat, cream cheese, carmalized onions, sauerkraut, and spicy brown mustard on a Hoagie Bun. For those too familiar, management continues to waste the best rotation in PNW baseball history. Yet, Go M’s!
Happy Jimmy Claxton Day!
I too welcome our alien overlords.
RIP Chet Lemon. He began his MiLB career with the 1972 Coos Bay-North Bend affiliate of the Oakland A’s.
Yes English nerds, I realize “very highly” is a double adverb.
Loving this autobiography of Carver Clark Gayton; star athlete at Garfield HS & UW on the gridiron, Boeing engineer, and co-founder of the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle. He even signed it. If you enjoy PNW history, he lived and made it. I very highly recommend it.
Bless all Canadian voters.
Love you Van!
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Enter the WuTang (36 Chambers) & Liz Phair Exile in Guyville,
Please do not forget the 25th Infantry at Fort George Wright in the story.
I really needed a laugh. Well said. Thank you.
