Kyle Hendricks is the first pitcher to win 14 games; maybe he will get 20.
I wonder what the all time record for wins by a Dartmouth grad in major league baseball?
Jim Beattie: 12 wins for Seattle in 1984
Mike Remlinger, 10-1 for Atlanta in 1999 – -.909 winning percentage;
Pete Broberg: 14 wins for Brewers in 1975, but had a losing record.
Jeff Tesreau (was a Dartmouth coach): won 26 games for the 1914 New York Giants; is buried in Hanover.
Cole Sulser of the Orioles has appeared in 43 games this year in relief, with five saves and three wins. The only other Big Green major league pitcher, it seems, is Chuck Seelbach of the Tigers, who won a total of 10 games in relief. I’ve been a Dartmouth guy for 40 years, collecting baseball cards for 50 years but don’t actually recall this name or card:
edit to add: on further review I should qualify this to say his era is over 4.00, and he has given up a league-leading 159 hits over 144 innings. Good season, and winning, but only a fellow alum writing a semi-sports blog would call him the best pitcher in baseball. Go, Kyle.
First, Stella Brooks sings on a Joe Sullivan record on Folkways, “Rabbit Foot Blues” but it lifts a verse from Stella’s signature song “I’m a Little Piece of Leather”.
Two, there’s a Dartmouth alumna Mali O that plays with Lulu Wiles a folk group out of Nashville; she is also playing jazz bass on a Don Cherry tribute album I’m sponsoring out of New Mexico. It’s led by trumpet player Delbert Anderson who I met virtually at Folk Alliance. I wonder if it’s helpful to put Mali in touch with some of the Dartmouth ‘70s who knew Don’s bass player Johnny Mbizo Dyanni.
I caught up to Jewlia aka Charming Hostess after years of mere fandom — it started with Glenn Smith of KSZU if that dates it — a couple years ago at David Katznelson’s pop up in the outer Mission. I wanted to fly her to Chicago to perform for the Morton and Edna Weiss Judaica Collection at something Israel. Anyways, mazel to Jewlia.
I also tried to book her to open for Johnny A at The Mitch in January, 2020 but her partner told me she was too ill to consider any offers. Andrew Gilbert wrote a nice obituary about Jewlia.
Michael Twohy is a famous cartoonist, for example for The New Yorker. Years ago, he played varsity basketball for the Cubberley of Palo Alto Cougars. My coach Hans Delannoy, a star of the 1969, and later the coach of the 1979 and last team, gave me the official scoring totals, arranged from high to low and I noticed Twohy’s name. Here is a more recent cartoon that coincidentally depicts hoops culture:
I scored four points for Gunn in 1980-81. I get a lot of talking points out of that result. Steve Baird, the future Stanford grad and lawyer, likewise scored in single figures. (His brother Brett Baird is a historian of all things Palo Alto sports).
My understanding is that a group of later graduates are deliberating a Cubberley Hall of Fame. I suggested that athletes who did other things should be given consideration, like the Nashville based concert promoter Marc Oswald (it was said that he once employed in Nashville 20 Palo Altans).
There were 25 classes of Cubberley students. I’ve surely met more than 1,000 Cubberley grads or former students. I could likely recognize the names of 100 Cubberley stars, mostly from sports. Maybe there were 8,000 Cubberley students, all in.
I would list Bill Green, the 1980 Olympic-caliber 400 meter track star as the most notable. If “Cubberley” as a name is no longer politically correct — because, like David Starr Jordan and Louis Terman, he was a eugenicist — maybe call the campus Bill Green. (I would, accordingly, change Greene Middle School to Joan Baez School or Ron Wyden, or maybe Davante Adams. I would name a school for Zoe Lofgren, the congressmember who went to Terman and Gunn).
Anyhoo that’s my twohy-sense worth.
and1: I have a picture, somewhere in my data banks, of Hans Delannoy speaking 7/31/21 at the memorial for Coach Bob Peters. I was at a 50th birthday and could only be there in spirit and small financial contribution – I bought a ticket.
Kathleen Hughes and Charlie Hughes of Ada’s Cafe at Mitchell Park Center, and Mark Weiss of Earthwise Productions take una pausa muy breve after a banner day in which the cafe made 108 sandwiches, 10 of which were for La Doña Y Su Cuates, who played the nearby bowl. Earthwise hosts a two band bill, Vetiver and David James Mission Rebels next Saturday, from 2 to 5 pm. The City of Palo Alto then hosts a Twilight show at Rinconada Park with a special mystery guest.
I appreciate this column, Ms. Diamond. And I am well aware that I have been deleted numerous times from this forum — and automatically deleted from the news feed. And I have said some obnoxious things.
Nelson Rockefeller was my classmate at Dartmouth, as was his nephew Michael. Hardly knew him, but he pitched a story to me when I was an editor of The D and he was in the fraternity council — Theta Delt, with Brian Stretch the recent US Attorney for Northern Cal. The Boom Boom Lodge, whatever that means.
Rumor or the grapevine was that someone went up to Nelson and made a joke about his dad and Nelson cold-cocked him with one punch. The deans reprimanded the jokester.
Kirsten Gillibrand the US senator was also our schoolmate, and I went to two recent fundraisers in the area. People asked her about her take-down of Al Franken and she said “if he was innocent he would not have resigned”. I would say, you don’t make it to US Senator of Governor unless you can take someone out with an elbow, real or metaphorical. Another classmate, Maya Wiley, ran for Mayor of NYC. To the left of Eric Adams. Her people are grateful for giving it a go.
I would say a great day was when Anna Eshoo, Joe Simitian and LaDoris Cordell said jointly they do not support the recall of Judge Persky.
CNN today had a convincing rebuttal by a female attorney representing the Governor.
Let he who is without sin throw the first stone. And I’m sorry I called you “Double D”.
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Ok… my roommate at Dartmouth went to Gonzaga Prep to Kavanaugh’s Georgetown Prep and lived about 3 miles away in Chevy Chase and was a year ahead. I know a whole crew of rich, smart, funny, sometimes naughty white guys who joked about women and who boofed or biffed or bloffed or pulled a train or whatever. It’s worse that he lied about it than whatever these guys did when they were 17 or 18. But he definitely did all those things. Kavanaugh. Cuomo didn’t do any of it. A lot of this went on at Yale and Dartmouth and Stanford four years later. Read Tom Wolfe “I Am Charlotte Simmons”.
Gonzaga Prep is like Bellarmine while Georgetown Prep is like SI. Boys will be boys. It’s what he has done in the last 20 years that determine if he should lead or make laws. He was a pretty good JV basketball player at Yale. His roommate made the NBA. My teammate at Gunn Kent Lockhart played pro ball in Australia with Arnie Duncan who later worked for Obama.
My friend B_ said he recognizes Kavanaugh but does not know the guy. I would say that 30 percent of my Dartmouth class would report they were sexually assaulted at Dartmouth but only a tiny percent have. Actually Melinda Lopez my classmate wrote a play about someone at Dartmouth who falsely reported being violently assaulted.
anDD:
I would say its naughty to call you “double D” but not harassment. If I ran into you around town and you told me not to call you such things, it would make a huge impression and I would never do such a thing again.
The media distorts a lot of this.
I’d like to hear James Franco’s side of the story on his problems. I’d like to hear from Betty Franco. I would bet that people who know Betty Franco would take James Franco’s side of those stories.
I would say its naughty to call you “double D” but not harassment. If I ran into you around town and you told me not to call you such things, it would make a huge impression and I would never do such a thing again.
The media distorts a lot of this.
I’d like to hear James Franco’s side of the story on his problems. I’d like to hear from Betty Franco. I would bet that people who know Betty Franco would take James Franco’s side of those stories.
Vetiver joined the show when David James‘ project was moved from the cozy interior of the Palo Alto Art Center to Mitchell Park, at the suggestion of his agent, who is also the agent for a Laura Veirs show that was originally scheduled for Mitchell Park indoors, and is about to go on sale for November. Got that? I believe that the plan is to play with three musicians, i.e. guitar, keyboard and drums/percussion – -Vetiver is doing a show at The Ivy Room the night before, I believe.
What’s funny, if you excuse a bit about the promoter and not the bands, is that while fixing to re-start my concert series after more than a year hiatus, I was wanting to bring my series to the Mitchell Park Bowl, which is about a two minute walk from the ballroom, but I didn’t know which forms to fill out to do so. It took a bit of a row about the whole “mask mandate” before landing on this series. (which actually commenced three days ago, with Motoko Honda on keys and Phillip Greenlief on tenor, then alto).
I still recommend the art show called “the Black Index” at the museum another 12 days but not sure what that has to do now with these two upcoming concerts.
Also, I told David James that I would continue to work with him as he tried to develop his project called “Mission Rebel” which has to do with his relationship with his father, the Reverend Jessie James who was a labor leader and civil rights activist in the 1960s and 1970s in San Francisco, where David is from. Actually, Cecilia Peña Govea of La Doña is also someone who grew up in SF, slightly after David James, but with a family of activists and musicians. I don’t know as much about Andy Cabic of Vetiver but look forward to meeting him.
Please join us, for both shows.
Signed,
Mark Weiss
dba Earthwise of Palo Alto (and Plastic Alto blog)
PS David wrote to say Lisa Mezzacappa will be joining the show on bass. She, too, was scheduled to appear at the community center in 2020, leading a band. It’s great to have a project where you try to keep track of all the great musicians, and bands and then get them to pass through these parts, the 650.
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Scott Amendola and Ben Goldberg are set to perform a happy-hour show at Lytton Plaza downtown, Emerson and University, a tribute to Thelonious Monk, who recorded an album here in 1968. This show is part of Mayor Tom Dubois‘ “Service Week” which is roughly a response to the destruction of the World Trade Center in September, 2001, which is 20 years ago now (whereas I started Earthwise in 1994 in reaction to the Gulf War, Rodney King riots, the Earthquake and the Berkeley Hills Fire. I was trained as a journalist, wandered off into the rough of advertising then pulled myself up by the boogie-straps to become a concert promoter and artist manager. I just made up the word “boogie-straps” a mix of “boot straps” meaning self-starter and “boogie” meaning you can dance to it.
Did I mention that La Doña y Su Cuate (and her buddies) has six musicians including I think 3 horns or reeds and her father Miguel Govea on either trumpet or accordion? So, all in I am wrangling about 16 musicians in the next month or so. Eighteen if you add back in Greenlief and Honda, to life, l’chaim.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
