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A companion to the author's The Best of River-Town Small-Ball, River-Town Remnants provides additional anecdotes and essays:

• There was Rocky Nelson of Joredan's Brentwood Addition who knew he couldn't make the starting lineup of his hometown team. Instead, he offered his services to archival Belle Plains and sealed a deal with Manager Gerry Meyer by offering to change burned-out light bulbs in Tiger Stadium's 80-ft-high towers. Nobody else would risk it.
• Jim Stoll signed his first professional baseball contract at age 17 in 1955 with the San Francisco Seals of the old independent Pacific Coast League. He said the Red Sox bought his Seals team and his contract, then cut his pay in half, which sent him off the diamond and into an Air Force recruiting office from where he ended up on the Iron Range of northern Minnesota. He didn't know a thing about hockey, but he found a baseball team in Marble, which he took to the Minnesota State Amateur Baseball Tournament in his first year and where he claimed he "had the most fun playing ball ever."
• Mark Hess was a throwback to the Golden Age of Baseball. An All Big Ten shortstop with the Minnesota Gophers his senior year, with more than a cup of coffee with professional organizations, he said of his game during the "hot metal bat era" of amateur ball, "The double play was my homerun."
• A WW II Purple Heart veteran who ran with Patton in Africa and Italy, and a respected local power pitcher, Frank Betchwars would serve holiday dinners on the house at his restaurant to the 30-to 40 people he knew to be alone in town.
• Jim Pollard, the NBA's first superstar with the Minneapolis Lakers, would lead the 1954 Jordan Brewers' charge on Umpire Berg in what was hailed as the "Biggest Rhubarb in Baseball Tourney History."
• The divisiveness between Catholics and Lutherans in the little river towns was suspended if a kid could play shortstop or break off a curveball at he knees. Baseball transcended religion.

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