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As another Major League Baseball season winds down, a Nebraskan is in the record books.

Val Heim, who went from the baseball fields to the farm fields outside Superior in the 1940s, is the oldest-living big-leaguer, according to Baseball Reference.

Heim, who was born in Wisconsin and played three weeks for the Chicago White Sox in 1942, is set to turn 99 Monday.

Nicknamed “Stalski,” Heim grew up not in Nebraska, but on the bitterly cold Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

At age 15, his father, a railroad conductor, arranged for him and an American Legion baseball teammate to take the early morning train to Chicago to watch ballgames at Wrigley Field.

“In one day, we toured the city, watched players warm up on the field and ate hot dogs until the end of the game,” Heim says with a laugh. “We made an 800-mile round trip by ourselves and were home in bed that night.”

Listed at 5-foot-11, 170 pounds, Heim signed with the White Sox in 1940 and made his big-league debut with Chicago on Aug. 31, 1942, going 1-for-4 as an outfielder against the Philadelphia A's.

Heim hit .200 with seven RBIs in 13 games in what turned out to be his only season in the majors.