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TWINS TRIVIA is hopefully a fun and informative site that will help you to better enjoy the Minnesota Twins and their wonderful history. History never looks like history when you are living through it – John Gardner, former Secretary of Health. Today in Twins History. Twins Hall of Fame. 1986 Silver Anniversary Team. Twins Minor League History. Twins Ticket Price History. Twins Audio and Video clips. Books about the Minnesota Twins. Minnesota Twins Interview Archive. 8211; Twins pitcher from 1978-1982.

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THE EXPANSION YEARS: September 2010

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL IN THE 60'S. 1970 Minnesota Twins Lineup. Saturday, September 25, 2010. 1960 World Series Kinescope Found in Cellar. 65279;Bill Mazeroski is greeted at home plate after hitting his series-ending homer. 65279;It's hard to begin any discussion about baseball in the 1960's without mentioning Bill Mazeroski's walk-off homer in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series. Here's the story thanks to 'Duk at the Yahoo blog "Big League Stew" and New York Times' writer Richard Sandomir. As first rep...

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THE EXPANSION YEARS: August 2011

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL IN THE 60'S. 1970 Minnesota Twins Lineup. Monday, August 1, 2011. Is This an Error Card? I was searching through some 1969 Topps cards and came across an error on the back of card #5 (1968 American League Home Run Leaders). I couldn't find out if Topps had corrected this or not. Heck, maybe I'm the first to notice, although I doubt it. Tells us Boog led the Orioles with 22. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Go to My Minnesota Twins Blog. Me at the new Target Field. Baseball Almanac - 1969.

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Half-Baked Hall: Home Run Baker | Coffeyville Whirlwind

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Twins Franchise History from American League Park to Target Field. Half-Baked Hall: Home Run Baker. Written by David Jones:. Perhaps envious of Ruth’s fame, Baker bemoaned the “rabbit ball” that made the home run a more frequent occurrence. “I don’t like to cast aspersions,” Baker later confided to a reporter, “but a Little Leaguer today can hit the modern ball as far as grown men could hit the ball we played with.”. 8220;Home Run” admiring his work. Baker’s work has possibly been the most spectacu...

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Half-Baked Hall Profile: Ed Walsh | Coffeyville Whirlwind

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Twins Franchise History from American League Park to Target Field. Half-Baked Hall Profile: Ed Walsh. George Hildebrand- later became an AL umpire. Strickett found Hildebrand to be a godsend. The outfielder taught his version of the spitball to Strickett, who was able to resurrect his season using the new pitch. Walsh, of course, went on to have a lot of success with the pitch. From his SABR bio. Ed Walsh, no doubt chewing elm bark in order to maintain his saliva supply. There is no indication that Walsh...

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THE EXPANSION YEARS: THE 50 HOME RUN CLUB

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL IN THE 60'S. 1970 Minnesota Twins Lineup. Monday, July 26, 2010. THE 50 HOME RUN CLUB. If you want to read a great book about baseball read Mark Ribowsky's "The Complete History Of The Home Run." It gives a decade-by-decade breakdown of the home run from the mighty blow that was thought to have. Jim Creighton in 1862 ("Didn't we warn you guys about trying to hit them balls out the park? Through Barry Bonds asterisk-setting 73 round-trippers in 2001. No one in the 1970's hit 50 or mo...

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Half-Baked Hall Profile: Joe McGinnity | Coffeyville Whirlwind

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Twins Franchise History from American League Park to Target Field. Half-Baked Hall Profile: Joe McGinnity. And watched many organized games, usually as a bat boy. Enter Ban Johnson, who wanted to end “rowdyism” in his new American League in 1901, and promised umpires who would join his league that he would back them in that endeavor. Tommy Connolly signed on for the inaugural season of American League baseball and became a Hall of Fame umpire with more than a quarter century of service. Though Connolly d...

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Half-Baked Hall Profile: Fred Clarke | Coffeyville Whirlwind

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Twins Franchise History from American League Park to Target Field. Half-Baked Hall Profile: Fred Clarke. There is not much that I can add, but I will try. Clarke apparently lacked talent in one area: hat placement. The baseball world was not the only one in which Clarke showed all-around talent. This entry was posted on Friday, March 13th, 2015 at 10:17 am and is filed under Half-Baked Hall. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Feed You can leave a response. From your own site.