Hall of Famer

Hey tour guide look out the window now, I think you will be interested in this.  What is it KW?  Just look and you will see.  WOW KW, this is really cool.  This takes me way back to my NOAA Weather Service days.  This is awesome.  Tour guide you are kind of weird and you talk about me being excitable.

Shelf Clouds.










Ok tour guide, that storm is over, let's get going.  What is so important?  We are going to the Roger Maris Museum at the West Acres Mall.  Oh yeah, that's right.  Come on KW, get a move on.  He wanted his museum to be free to all.  His friends in Fargo told him about a mall they could put it in.  He agreed but specified no one would be charged.











Cleveland Indians.


Kansas City Athletics.


New York Yankees.


St. Louis Cardinals.


Great Baseball player, Greater Family man.


Micky and Roger.




Going for the ball.  Of course he caught it.




























Mrs. tour guide was and still is a New York Yankee fan.


Scheels All Sports.


Scheels two lane bowling alley.


Scheels Farris Wheel.


Riding the wheel.


Mrs. tour guide shopping for new shoes.  Yes, she bought one pair.  Side note, she hates shopping for shoes.


KW & CJ on the shootingt range.  I think CJ is a much better shot.  Hey tour guide, I heard that.


Mrs. tour guide's QB is now a Minnesota Viking.


TTFN:

PS:

Roger Maris.


MLB statistics:

BA  .260
HR  275
RBI 850

Roger Maris played for the Cleveland Indians (1957-1958), Kansas City Athletics (1958-1959), New York Yankees (1960-1966), St. Louis Cardinals (1967-1968).

Career highlights and awards:

7x All Star
3x World series champion (1961, 1962, 1967)
2x AL MVP (1960,1961)
Gold Glove Award (1960)
AL home run leader (1961)
2x Al RBI leader (1969, 1961)

Born: Hibbing, Minnesota September 10, 1934
Died: December 14, 1985 (aged 51) Houston, Texas

Batted: Left   Threw: Right

Maris set the MLB record for home runs during the 1961 season with 61 of them, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season record of 60 home runs in 1927.  This record was challenged by then-baseball commissioner Ford Frick (who had been a friend of Babe Ruth), who said that Maris needed to break the record in 154 games in stead of the current schedule of 162 games.

Shelf Clouds:

A shelf cloud is a low hanging, well-defined-shaped formation that occurs along the leading edge of a gust front in a thunderstorm.  Shelf clouds most often form just ahead of intense lines of thunderstorms.  Rain-chilled air descends in a thunderstorm's downdraft, then spreads laterally when reaching Earth's surface.  Warmer, more moist air is lifted at the leading edge, or gust front, of this rain-cooled air.  When this warm, moist air condenses, you see the shelf cloud.