[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Time to introduce you all to Ben Winkler, the current owner of the Texas Border Patrol franchise in the American Baseball Refuge Society. There's a good deal of information about him that might help you get to know him at least a bit better here, so I'm just going to cut to the chase, so to speak, in terms of introducing him to you all. With no further ado, then, let's start getting to know him at least a bit better here, as best as we can, everyone.

Ben Winkler was born on September 21, 1899 in Eagle, Colorado to Reuben and the former Nele Kalani, a native of Hawaii that Reuben had met as a child in Hawaii while with his missionary parents, as their eldest son and sixth child. He has five younger siblings, with three of them being brothers. He spent much of his early life in Colorado and surrounding states as the son of a railroad man and a housewife, until the family finally moved permanently to Texas near Austin. He didn't like living in the big city much for the rest of his childhood or adolescence, but still bore his current circumstances as patiently as he could while still living at home with his parents.

Within a week of finishing high school, he left home to make his own way in life. He took a few years off from school, and worked as a ranch hand for several cattle farms while also participating in a few rodeo-related events as well. It was while doing so, he met the love of his life, Amelia Csonka, at a dance.

Four and a half years after their meeting, and six months after finishing college at what already was or will become UTEP, they married in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1925. They spent almost two years traveling all over after Ben resumed his rodeo-related career until they started having children in July 1927, with their first child being Elizabeth, born in Laredo, Texas. Elizabeth was followed by Vernon in 1930, born in El Paso, Texas, then Amos in 1934, and Donna in 1937. All but Elizabeth, though, were born in El Paso. The family of six now lives in El Paso, but Lizzie has hopes of beginning to travel the world for several years, once she finishes high school, within the next four to six months. She doesn't care where, she just wants to see the world while still young, as much as she can. She's bored with Texas, at least for the most part, now. But her three siblings and both parents aren't, for sure, in any case.

Ben and Amelia now run a major cattle ranching empire, primarily, for a living. But Ben has also worked as a member of the United States Border Patrol, every so often as a part-time as a Border Patrol officer, as the need arises, at certain times every year. Nobody ever sneaks past him to illegally cross the border successfully, whether or not he's actually on duty as a Border Patrol officer. Or at least not for long, anyway. He is a crack shot with numerous kinds of ranged weapons, and even though he's now 47 years old, he still constantly keeps himself as physically fit as possible, most definitely.

He considered other team names and home city possibilities for his team, once he was granted an ABRS franchise right after the end of World War II. But eventually, he officially chose the name Texas Border Patrol for his new ABRS pro baseball team all by himself. While Texas may have cities surely more populated than El Paso is or may ever have been or wil be, he chose El Paso for the Border Patrol's home city because he really loves living there and in its area quite a bit more than living anywhere else in the world at this time in his life, for sure, at the very leaast. So much so, that he hopes to be able to live there for the rest of his Earthly life, in fact.

Picture(s) and certain other information will be shared later as possible and all, I'm sure. The next profile that's most likely the next to be shared here will be the one for the Border Patrol's current General Manager, one Jeremy Weger. Please watch for it to be posted here as soon as possible, then, folks. Thank you. CD out.