The Oklahoman was our guest, author Todd Fuller, who
read from his book, "Sixty Feet Six Inches and Other
Distances from Home: The (Baseball) Life of Mose
YellowHorse." We heard of YellowHorse's debut in
Pittsburgh in 1921, his antics with Rabbit Maranville,
and his beaning of Ty Cobb in an exhibition game after
being the target of Cobb's taunts.

John Skipper, a Mason City native, made the
arrangements for the meeting and served as emcee.
Being a demanding bunch, we asked him to give a talk
as well, and he responded. He presented information
from his upcoming book on baseball managers, talking
about Leo Durocher, Charlie Dressen, and why the
Chicago Cubs are a manager's graveyard (a surprising
number of Cub managers have never managed again after
their time with the Cubs).

Stew Thornley shared a 15-minute radio interview with
Lou Gehrig, originally aired in Rochester, Minnesota
in 1939, when Gehrig was with the Mayo Clinic. It was
a pleasant interview, in which Gehrig talked about
some of the hot new prospects in baseball (like "that
kid Williams from Minneapolis"), gave his opinion of
night baseball (which he didn't think was real
baseball, but spectacle) and opined that a ballplayer
union would never succeed (he was right for the next
25 years or so).

Howard Luloff handled the trivia contest with aplomb.
Stew Thornley (HH chapter) and Dan Greder (FoD
chapter) tied for high score and then helped represent
their chapters in a team face-off, which the visiting
Minnesotans won in a tight battle going down to the
last question.

It was, all in all, a delightful experience and we
look forward to the next joint meeting.

The next Field of Dreams Chapter meeting has not yet
been scheduled, but we will shoot for late January,
around the time of the Iowa Cubs Fan Fest in Des
Moines. Watch this space for further bulletins.

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- R. J. Lesch, Des Moines IA