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You know....when you WIN TRIVIA TUESDAY.....
you are allowed to sleep in!!

Congratulations to ME.....for stumping all of you.
(I know you played 'cause I see your clicks!)
This week's winning answer was Mr. Edward Joseph Farmer...
aka "Farmio" from the Chicago White Sox Radio Network.
If you watch the Sox games on TV with Hawk....I'm so sorry that you don't realize what you're missing on the radio. As an extra bonus when I am in southern Indiana...there is a Spanish radio station near the 670 dial...and it sounds like Farmer and DJ are broadcasting from a Mexican bordello.....not that I would know what a Mexican bordello sounds like....but let's move on!!

• Southside guy from St. Thomas More who went to St. Rita H.S.
• Drafted by Cleveland right out of High School.
• Signed by Jerry Krause....yeah...that Jerry Krause.
• In '79...while pitching for the Rangers....he hit 2 KC Royals players in one game.He broke Frank White's hand...and fractured Al Cowens jaw (for apparently looking back at the catcher to see his mitt placement)
• Cowens never forgot...a year later, Cowens was playing for Detroit and Farmer for our White Sox...Cowens came up to bat against Farmer for the first time since the incident a year before. Cowens hits the ball to the shortstop....but instead of running to first base, he runs directly at the pitchers mound to take out a years worth of frustration on Ed.
• I remember seeing this on the news back in the day....but can't find a clip of it now.....it was a riot.
• Farmer has an arrest warrant issued for Cowens the next day...and Cowens had to miss the next trip to Comiskey with the Tigers due to it.
• Farmer agreed to drop the charges and they finally shook hands and made good at home plate before their last game on Sept 1st 1980.
• Cowens died of a heart attack at age 50 about 10 years ago.
• We both started our "careers" at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, IL
• He had a Kidney Replacement back in '91....received it from his brother Tom who was a friend of my Uncle Jim...this is where it gets foggy...

I think that both his Mom and Dad died in their late 30's or early 40's....Farmer signed his first MLB contract in his Mom's hospital room after discussing plans with her to nix a ride to Notre Dame...has 8 brothers and sisters....his Dad had a electrical contracting business around 79th and Kedzie....I sat in his Vette while visiting the Farmer house one day with my Uncle.

Only Vette I ever sat in.

....back to bed.

Marty