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The historic MVP race between Cuban Twins and their unidentical baseball careers
LA Times via Yahoo Sports· 9 months agoZoilo Versalles and Tony Oliva were teammates on the Minnesota Twins. Both players were involved in...
Charley Walters: Bert Blyleven, Jim Kaat are next in line for statues outside Target Field
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBaseball Hall of Fame Minnesota Twins Harmon Killebrew, Rod Carew, Kirby Puckett and Tony Oliva have bronze statues outside Target Field. Expected next are fellow Hall of Famers Bert Blyleven ...
Neal: It’s the most Minnesota weekend ever at baseball’s Hall of Fame
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCOOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – A mostly Minnesota-bred Hall of Fame class will be presented on Sunday on a field near the Clark Sports Center, with luscious swaths of green grass and trees forming a backdrop ...
Reusse: Twins great Kaat finally living the life of a Hall of Famer
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTony Oliva walks among us, and it has not been difficult for Minnesotans to track his joy over being inducted into the Hall of Fame last July, 46 years after limping through his final game for ...
Former Twins stars Jim Kaat, Tony Oliva set for Hall of Fame induction
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe phone call came in on a Sunday afternoon early in December to Jim Kaat in Florida and Tony Oliva at home in Minnesota. After decades of waiting, both of the former Twins stars picked up ...
THOMA COLUMN | Validating the memories of Minnesota boomers
The Free Press, Mankato, Minn. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 25—I carry three specific memories from the first major league game I ever attended: The startling beauty of the green grass as we entered the second deck behind home plate at Metropolitan ...
Local group plans trip to Cooperstown to see Oliva, Kaat be inducted
Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 19—ROCHESTER — Joe Laughton Jr. of Rochester is organizing a "bucket list" trip to the National Baseball Hall of Fame to see the induction ceremony of former Minnesota Twins players Tony ...
Twins in the Hall of Fame: Can you name them all?
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo Sports· 3 months agoWhen your bookends are Harmon Killebrew and Joe Mauer, you know you've got a high-quality collection of baseball players. The list of Hall of Famers who spent time with the Twins is now 13 players ...
Every MLB team's retired numbers
NBC Sports Chicago via Yahoo Sports· 1 year agoEvery MLB team's retired numbers originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago One of the most iconic moments in professional sports is having your number...
Reusse: Hynes, Wild go out gambling by pulling goalie in OT
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo Sports· 1 month agoThe Twins were staging a rally in Boston on the final day of American League's Great Race of 1967. Down 5-2 in the eighth inning, Harmon Killebrew and Tony Oliva had produced two-out singles ...
