![]() ![]() My mother was much younger than her older brother Jack, as she graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1955, and Jack graduated by 1949. When I was young, my mother informed me that her oldest brother, John (Jack) Thornby played college baseball for the Minnesota Gophers in the late 1940’s. Growing up a baseball fan in a southwest suburb of Minneapolis, I was curious about relatives of mine, who might have played baseball, at any level, college or pro. Waseca was a vibrant farming town, in the heart of southern Minnesota farm country, where farm fields seemed to roll on forever, and baseball fields broke the monotony of tall corn stalks. ![]() ![]() My mom grew up in Waseca, Minnesota, 71 miles south of Minneapolis. The springs are crisp, the summers tend to be hot and humid, and the falls are spectacular. As hard as it might be to believe, Minnesota is not just a hockey playing state, covered with snow. ![]()
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