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Passionate out-of-state Twins fan from Toledo, Detroit and Chicago, now Nashville since 8 years old in 1964. Hooked on Twins by Spring Training game in 1964 at Tinker Field in Orlando. Talked to Calvin Griffith about signing Carew at Toledo Mud Hens game. Numerous Met, Metrodome and spring training jaunts to Orlando and Ft. Myers once. Avid table baseball player with the Sports Illustrated color coded charts in 1971 hooking me big time! Favorite Twins are Rod Carew, Tony Oliva and Lyman Bostock.

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Twins Hall of Fame Nominations

Lyman Bostock Deserves to be in the Twins Hall of Fame!

In my opinion, Lyman Bostock deserves to be in the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame. I just became aware that he isn’t and felt a wave of incredulity come over me when I first thought about it.  The only reason I can think of is that his career with the Twins was cut short by Calvin Griffith’s mind boggling penuriousness (he paid Bostock $20,000 in 1977 for what might had been an MVP season but for Rod Carew’s actual .388 MVP season). And another owner, Gene Autry, of the Angels signed him to a
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