Mac—Mackenzie Brownlee 

She's in her early sixties, owns Midway, and is married to an absentee long-haul trucker. She collects Native American artifacts and antiques. She and Stoner often go "antiquing." They have a unique scheme to get local farmwives to part with their best antiques at low prices. She was born near the Fox & Sauk Reservation near Tama; her grandparents were members of the Meskawaki tribe.  Her first husband died in a train crash in Wyoming.  Her son died in a fight in Rock Springs, Wyoming where he was working in a coal mine. Mac doesn't revel her unique cultural heritage to many people. Among the other Rounders, she's frequently the moderator and peacemaker, but she tell's friends she's a 'tough old broad.'

Stoner—Mildred Jane Stone

Stoner, as all her friends call her, is in her late forties. It is an unusual nickname for a woman, but it suits her forceful, sometimes abrasive style. When her husband died, she continued to run their hardware store and lumberyard in Blairstown. She's also the manager of a local farmer's grain co-op. And, just in case she didn't have enough to keep her busy, she's volunteered to run the local chapter of the Red Cross. She has two small dogs, named 'Sweet' and 'Sour' because of their contrasting personalites. When she was young, living in Chicago, she worked as a 'taxi dancer'' in a speakeasy. What's a 'taxi dancer?' Read the first Rounders Mystery, Murder is Broadcast to find out. 

Pansy—Frank O'Malley

He runs a garage in Plainsfield. He doesn't like to do anything the local filling station will do—changing the oil or lubricating cars. He wants real challenges to his unqiue ability to solve mechanical problems. He even got called in to open locked safe in Chelsea when the owners couldn't get it open. He's an Irish-Catholic with six children. He reads the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune daily. He and Roy are best friends, sometimes spending hours discussing politics or ideas from the books Roy reads, such as The Lonely Crowd. Like Stoner, he has a firm opinion on any subject you bring up. He's anything but pansy-like. He's in his early fifties.

Roy—Roy Mortensen

He's the oldest of the Rounders—in his late sixties. A horticulturist by passion; he raises hybrid roses, peonies, and iris. But he was trained as a lawyer when he was young and his father forced him to go to his alma mater, Harvard Law School. His marriage only lasted a year. His wife and daughter, whom he never sees, live in Florida. He lives in Belle Plaine. He's short, somewhat fragile looking. He wears wool pants year round and a long-sleeved dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He always looks a bit frumpy. A good friend of Pansy, he hoards old copies of Pansy's daily subscriptions to the Journal and the Tribune. They sit in piles around his house, creating a single path from the back door to the front room he uses as a part-time law office. He lost his father's fortune in a venture to turn corncobs into plastic, an enterprise he read about in the Journal in the 1940s. He has a slick scheme for getting rich ladies from Chicago to buy his hybrid roses. Roy's college roomate, Everett Samuelson is a successful defense attorney in Vinton. He frequently helps the Rounders out. 

Lawrs—Lawrence Jensen

He tells his many friends his nickname rhymes with 'stars.' He's a farmer from near Newhall. He's single, in his mid-twenties, and a self-style lady's man. He always wears jeans and t-shirts that emphasize his slender, Frank Sinatra physique. A graduate of the agriculture program at Iowa State, he's ambitious and progressive, always interested in buying additional agricultural land. None of that has curtailed his reputation as a 'good-time boy.' He dates every weekend, going to dances or the movies. He has no 'steady' girl. However, the waitress at Midway, Ruthie Williams, has a crush on him and is always trying to figure out a way to get him to ask her out. He loves to tell jokes about his favorite farmer, Homer. Not a Rounders' meeting goes by without a new joke from Lawrs.

Fritz-Fritz McKay

For years, he was manager of the local hybrid seed corn company in Belle Plaine. He's now retired and in his early sixties. He also served as the mayor of Belle Plaine for several terms. The novels of Mickey Spillane are his secret passion. He is a good friend of Willard Carlisle. He's returned to town to turn the old King Theater into a community theater. They went to high school and college together. Fritz is distinguished looking and always well-groomed. He and Stoner have a 'special relatioship' since they both lost their spouses several years ago. He's the only one in the group who has a positive relationship with the county sheriff, Ralph Kretzler. Kretzler is in his seventies and elected; he knows how to schmooze the voters, but he's not too swift on his feet, so to speak.