Town Team Baseball Minnesota's new Major League Baseball team, the Minnesota Twins, in 1961. Since the minimum number of players required to field a team for a single game with no substitutions is nine, then at least 7191 (and in actuality a much larger number) individuals participated in Minnesota townball in the peak year, 1950. Historically, Townball teams in Minnesota were divided into three classes: AA, A, and B. In Class AA leagues, teams were permitted three players from outside the local area, and salaries were unlimited; essentially, whatever the team's owners or shareholders could afford, they could pay. Because the unrestrained competition
My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew of the "New York Times" wrote, "if there is a better bedside book than this it should be beside the couch of Jove." A reviewer at "The Baltimore Sun" wrote, "I have never been able to find much humor in the writings of Robert Benchley but I must say his latest book, "My Ten Years In A Quandary And How They Grew", has caught my fancy and I do not hesitate to recommend it." My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew is a 1936 collection of 105