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Dr.Koos..my visiting Minnesota, about 18 years ago. It was the end of Sept./beginning of October and unusually warm that time of year in New York. I took a warm jacket because I had heard stories, though didn't believe them at first, of Minnesota's Plutonian type climate, which could freeze and crystallize a living being in their tracks! When the plane left NYC, it was a balmy 88 degrees, but upon landing in Minnesota, which was already shrouded in complete darkness at 2:30 in the afternoon, I wouldn't have been the least bit surprised if they had told me that we landed on another planet! The guy on the airstrip that was guiding the plane into the terminal with those signal lights in his hands was wearing a Spacesuit, complete with a helmet and the sky looked similar to the scene in "Alien" (the first one)when the spaceship landed! It looked like it was snowing but what was falling from the sky looked more like frozen confetti. Like a vortex of icecicles filling the frozen atmosphere. Just THROWING a baseball under conditions such as this (in pre-indoor days) without it being deflected by the icecicles or having the ball freeze right into the air in mid-flight is an amazing feat, let alone pitching ANY kind of complete game.