Hall of Fame pitcher and knuckleballer, Phil Niekro, is no longer with us, joining a long and sad list of Hall of Fame baseball players who died in 2020. I guess you could say his death, to quote a Bloomberg news headline, “capped a hellish 2020.” Niekro, who spent most of his career in the... Continue Reading »

The Twins Almanac is a website and active twitter feed that reports on the history of the team, its players and those athletes with a connection to Minnesota. An old Twins Almanac tweet showed up in my own twitter feed last week, reminding me of a time when the Twins turned two triple plays against... Continue Reading »

My father is downsizing, so for Christmas I received a box filled with baseball cards from the late 1980s and early 1990s. The box contained hundreds of cards and yet very few of them were Twins players, which was surprising given that the late 80s and 90s were some of the best years for the... Continue Reading »