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Lee BehrensAlexandria is 100 miles east of Fargo, ND and 120 west of Minneapolis. We have a giant Viking statue "Big Ole" in our town. We are the "Birthplace of America", someone 100 years ago found a runestone in his field with viking inscriptions telling of Vikings that had settled the area long before Colombus. Great debate to whether it is authentic, but it has travelled all over the world.
It was nice getting the Beetles in town, Northwoods League. Same format as the Cape Cod League, college students either Freshman, sophmore or Junior, and use a wood bat. I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of baseball played. The Beetles will have Frank Viola's son playing for them this year. Alot of former Twins players have had kids that either play or have played in the league.
As far as the name Beetles came about, they had a naming contest and the person that won came up with the "Rock Stars", so they decided to name it the "Beetles", gues they already had the name figured out. the Beetles have a bullpen car that looks like the yellow submarine, the players hate it.
This is what makes baseball such a great sport, you can put a high quality product in a small town and it can succeed, with the hope of some day maybe one of the players might make the majors.
This concludes my story of my hometown Alexandria, MN. If your ever in the area (lots of lakes) let us know.