April 2009
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March 2009
4 posts
T.D. Mischke
In 1986-1987, Mischke was known as “The Phantom Caller” on Don Vogel’s show, where he would randomly call in (without identifying himself) with tightly-written, thirty-second comedic interjections. He so amused the radio personality that he was invited to become Don’s sidekick on his show, Afternoon Saloon, on KSTP in 1992, during Vogel’s second stint in the Twin Cities. After the stint as a...
Verne Gagne
Verne Gagne was one of the most decorated athletes in Minnesota sports history. A star football player at the University of Minnesota during the 1940s, Gagne went on to parlay an illustrious amateur wrestling into a legendary pro career in which he was regarded as one of the ring’s greatest ever.
The essence of sportsmanship, the clean-cut, personable Gagne became an institution in his native...