[Nick Coleman @Strib] Twins catcher Joe Mauer will appear in his third Major League Baseball All-Star game Tuesday and may one day become the third St. Paul-born Baseball Hall of Famer … [b]ut there is another Minnesotan in the Hall of Fame who deserves more appreciation in his home state. He didn’t just triumph in the bare-knuckled world of baseball at the start of the 20th century. He also had to survive the cruelties and pressures of ignorance, racism and cartoon stereotyping of Native Americans … His name was Charles Albert Bender, born to an Ojibwe mother and a white father near Brainerd, Minn., in 1884.
Here’s Bender’s Hall of Fame page.
And what would be baseball without a boatload of player statistics?
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10:50 am
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11:21 am
The Twins (and the American League) did pretty well. Mauer came through with a big double to tie the game. Nathan helped close the door.