Author - Bill Guenthner, Hockessin, Delaware

 

I grew up in Eastwood Park in Minot, North Dakota in the 1950’s. Eastwood Park was near the ballpark, at that time called the Minot Municipal Ball Park.

I was a big Minot Mallard fan and so were my friends. I completed High School in Minot and attended the University of North Dakota where I graduated as a Chemical Engineer in 1966. After graduation, my wife Cindy Fredrickson from Lakota, North Dakota and I moved to the East Coast where I went to work for the DuPont Company. Cindy and I raised three children.

About 1997 Minot Mallard information started showing up on the Internet on Jay-Dell Mah’s Western Canada Baseball site. I started collecting information on the ManDak Mallards and sending it to Jay so he could add it to his website. Barry Swanton, who wrote a book on the ManDak League, contacted me and we began exchanging information. In 2005 I organized this Minot Mallards information and launched this website on July 4.