The Pecan Park Eagle

Larry Dierker Chapter
Houston

Last night at the June 19, 2014 monthly meeting of SABR’s Larry Dierker Chapter at the downtown Westin on Texas at Crawford, the group’s Houston Baseball, The Early Years, went on sale with all but one of the authors present for signings.

Chris Chestnut delivered an interesting report on one of those single  game major leaguers (and whose name I have quickly forgotten) who played about ten years ago but racking up only a strike our before hitting into a triple play and then a double lay in his only three times at bat. My apologies to Chris and his subject for adding the obscurity of being nameless to this brief history of frustration and disappointment.  – At least he had his day in the MLB sun that the rest of us could only fream bout.

Young Ted Williams had no idea where his head would finally end up..

 Tony Cavender then gave us a pretty good summary of the 800 plus page new biography on Ted Williams called “The Hid”. This treatment even includes the details of how Williams’ head was severed when he died for storage in an Arizona crogenics lab in the hope of the distant day it wll be brought back to life as the second coming of Ted Williams. Some of us also learned from Tony last night that Ted’s unscrupulou son also shortly after his father and that he also willed that his own head be severed for storage at the Tucson facility. And so it was.

The second Williams noggin freezing raised this question for me: If  the Arizona lab took on the skull and contents  of both Ted Williams and his son after their deaths, did the facility offer  the Williams family the “doubleheader rate” for these services?

No one was sure.

A representative from the Astros RBI Summer Baseball and Softball Leagues for boys and girls made an appeal for volunteers to help the organization play their games this summer as scoreboard and scorekeepers. All games are played ay the Jimmy Wynn complex on Victory Drive near Acres Homes on Monday  Friday, 6:00 PM through 10:00 PM.

If you are interested in helping, please call the Houston Astros Urban Youth Academy (UYA) as soon as possible, @ 281-260-9166,

Herb Whalley wound up the evening with the story of 2013 adventure visit too all major league ballpark. Herb says he enjoyed the views in San Francisco and Pittsburgh better than all others. The interior of closed Tampa Bay stadium was his least favorite view. Funny thing is, and maybe not so surprising, those three parks are my two most favorite and single least favorite too – and I’ve only seen them on TV.

Thanks for another nice gathering of the SABR faithful.

Bob Dorrill brought us up to date on  plans for the SABR 44 National Convention (July 30-Aug. 03). We need volunteers – and we need items for the silent auction. If you can help in any way, please get in touch with Bob Dorrill, ASAP. His contact info is listed below – which is also the best way to order our new SABRA-Legacy Houston Baseball History book.

Have a nice Tuesday afternoon, all of you ancient Moody Blues-zers!

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