Goldpanners Alumni

Amid World Series, Blue Jays relievers join Dodgers in wearing tribute to absent LA pitcher Alex Vesia (2017 Goldpanners) Alex Vesia reflects on experience in Alaska (2021): youtube.com/watch?v=pNOaJx… World Series Tribute (2025): apnews.com/article/world-…

Event No. 21 of #aroundtheworldin80sportingevents took me to Fairbanks for the annual Midnight Sun Game for baseball and a search for Dave Winfield, er his likeness. thesportsfanproject.com/2025/08/13/nor…

The Legend, Spaceman Bill Lee 👇👀

DUDES. What a year, what a team

W.G. & EDDIE STROECKER MIDNIGHT SUN GAME June 21, 2024 Tickets Available Now! alaska-goldpanners.square.site

There are countless luminaries lurking in the pages of Our History. Most of these men & women effected Our World in a positive way, doing so without acclaim. The entire 17-year history of this Social Media Account is presented in honor of them all. youtube.com/watch?v=uoDm_f… 4/4

BUD HOLLOWELL: "The world is not what it appears to be. One true goal of a spiritual quest is to shake off the ignorance of the deep feelings of separateness and awaken to the reality of the unity of all things." FREE PDF BOOK: The Eternal Dance archive.org/details/TheEte…

...this symbolizes Bud Hollowell's "quantum spirituality" by using his own six-decade baseball home as an example. BUD HOLLOWELL: "Our local perception of separateness is an illusion, and all individual entities like you and me are mere extensions of the quantum potential. 2/4

Listing GTG could continue into eternity. This is but a small sample of the jewels crowning baseball's equivalent of the ancient Greek Pantheon. Note that all of the names begin with B's. This is to suggest that we are all the One. The hope is that... 1/4

GTG#9 BOB SEBRA "You could hear his fastball sizzle." "He spent his final year in the ICU, almost all of the final four months alone due to coronavirus restrictions. He’d undergone transplants — liver, pancreas, small intestine, stomach and kidney." tinyurl.com/42vkzjds

God-Tier Goldpanners (GTG#8) BRENT STROM - 1967-68-69 Panners - MLB LHP: NYM, CLE, SDP - MLB COA: KCR, HOU, ARI 2nd UCL Surgery (1st: Tommy John) "God put (the palmaris longus) there so Frank Jobe could do this surgery" (The Arm by Jeff Passan, p.49) mlb.com/news/astros-pi…

God-Tier Goldpanners (GTG#7) BILL SCHMIDT * College Coach: - 82-83-84: Santa Ana - 85: ASU - 85: Panners * MLB Scout: - CLE, NYY, CIN, MLB - 2019 Scout of Year - Legends of Scouting Award * Colorado Rockies: - VP of Scouting - Senior VP - GM (Current)

God-Tier Goldpanners (GTG#6) BILLY SAMPLE - Outfielder: TEX, NYY, ATL (1978–86) - Broadcaster: ATL, SEA, CAL, NPR, CBS, ESPN, MLB - Writer: SI, New York Times, USAToday - Author: "A Year in Pinstripes" - Filmmaker: Reunion 108 - Coach: Panners (2015-16) baseball-reference.com/players/s/samp…

God-Tier Goldpanners (GTG#5) BILL STROECKER - 46-Year President of Panner Board - President, First National Bank (1967-78) - Jazz Trumpet in "The Frigid Aires" "There are a lot of people who don't care for baseball. But I don't deal with them." -ESPN: youtube.com/watch?v=iom5Hl…

God-Tier Goldpanners (GTG#4) BILL SEINSOTH - '67 Panner MVP - '68 CWS MVP - 5x MLB Draftee "can't-miss prospect who only came up short once: driving along the nation's most dangerous stretch of highway through the lonely, sun-baked California desert." amazon.com/Seinsoth-Rough…

God-Tier Goldpanners (GTG#3) BEN HINES - MGR, La Verne Col. (8 SCIAC Titles) - MGR, Boulder Collegians ('75 NBCWS Title) - MGR, Panners ('80 NBCWS Title) - Hitting Coach, LAD ('88 WS Title) - ABCA, NAIA & Bob Elias HoF - Author, "The Swing's the Thing" laverne.edu/news/2022/06/0…

God-Tier Goldpanners (GTG#2) BUD HOLLOWELL - 1963 CWS MVP - 1964 Olympian; Panner MVP - Minor League Manager (1970-71) - Author on Subject of Quantum Spirituality - Founded One World Insight (Designed to raise consciousness about aging and the elderly) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Hollo…

The greatest secret is that we are all gods. And so, in the slow reveal, is our first god: Bruce Robinson (72-73-74-75-93)

TOM SEAVER (64-65) Picture just because

KEN DRYDEN - Twice a last-minute drop from the Alaska Baseball Hall of Fame (Multiple Sports Clinics in Fairbanks, Alaska in his prime)