https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/history/page/21/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/history/chronicling-every-winner-take-all-game-in-twins-postseason-history-r16216/The Minnesota Timberwolves are set to tip off in a winner-take-all Game 7 against the defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets on Sunday. The Minnesota Twins have played in five such games, sporting a 3-2 record in 15 playoff appearances across 62 full seasons. Let’s take a look back at each winner...16216Sun, 19 May 2024 11:37:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/history/the-twins-almanac-for-may-18-carew-dashes-miggy-mashes-r16209/The Twins Almanac for May 18 is short and sweet, featuring career highlights by Rod Carew and Miguel Sanó, the birthdays of two players with interesting footnotes in Twins history, and a noteworthy game played in Minnesota on this date in 1865! Happy Birthday, Andre David Happy 66th bir...16209Sat, 18 May 2024 11:36:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/history/the-trade-for-bruno-twins-almanac-for-may-12-r16171/The Twins Almanac for May 12 is stacked with great names from Minnesota baseball history, including 1949 Rochester town-baller Sam Jones, the colorful Pedro Ramos, Rod "Mad Hits" Carew, Butch "I Love that Kid" Wynegar, Chuck "Dollar Dog" Knoblauch, Golden Gophers all-time great Robb Quinlan, and...16171Sun, 12 May 2024 16:17:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/history/randy-bush-biography-history-1987-1991/Randy Bush fits into a couple of memorable groups of Twins players held in high esteem by the fan base: the 1982 rookies, and the seven players who were part of both World Series championship teams in 1987 and 1991. Twins Hall-of-Famer and hometown kid Kent Hrbek fits into both of these grou...16165Sun, 12 May 2024 15:10:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/history/hrbek-gladden-bruno-and-more-twins-almanac-for-may-11-r16169/The Twins Almanac for May 11 features Kent Hrbek, Tom Brunansky, Frank Quilici, Dean Chance, Kerry Ligtenberg, and Dan Gladden. On this date...   1939 Former Twins player, player-coach, manager, and broadcaster Frank Quilici was born in Chicago on this date in 1939.  As a r...16169Sat, 11 May 2024 13:21:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/history/twins-almanac-latroy-breaks-a-streak-harpers-grand-slam-larry-hisles-birthday-r16122/The Twins Almanac for May 5th features a lot of familiar names, including Charles Bender, Larry Hisle, Mike Kingery, Jack Morris, Brian Harper, LaTroy Hawkins, David McCarty, Stan "Krusher" Kowalski, and Joe Mauer. And maybe one less familiar name: Ever heard of North Branch, MN native Lee Quill...16122Sun, 05 May 2024 12:44:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/history/twins-almanac-twins-legends-harmon-killebrew-and-mike-lincoln-r16120/The Twins Almanac for May 4th features Minnesota natives Jim Burnos, Charles Bender, and Paul Castner, and Twins legends Harmon Killebrew and . . . Mike Lincoln? I also manage to work Julio Franco into today's installment.  Happy 62nd birthday to former Twins minor leaguer Jim Burnos. Whil...16120Sat, 04 May 2024 15:10:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/history/who-here-even-remembers-twins-third-baseman-eric-soderholm-r16125/The Minnesota Twins have had more than 1,000 players in their history. Here at Remembering Random Twins, we try to learn more about some of the lesser-known Twins players. Today, let's look at the career of Twins third baseman Eric Soderholm. @mikelink45 had a blog post here on Twin Daily in...16125Sat, 04 May 2024 13:12:08 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/history/twins-almanac-jack-morriss-200th-win-buxtons-five-hit-day-r16076/The Twins Almanac for Sunday, April 28th features Pedro Ramos, Ron Washington, John Gaub, Mickey Hatcher, Kent Hrbek, Jack Morris, Luke Hughes, and Byron Buxton, with special guest appearances by Tony Oliva, Todd Walker, Rick Renick, Dave McKay, Gary Gaetti, Andre David, Eddie Rosario, Boileryar...16076Sun, 28 Apr 2024 13:16:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/history/twins-almanac-beating-cy-young-harmon-hits-400-scott-ericksons-no-hitter-r16074/The Twins Almanac for April 27th spans 120 seasons, featuring Charles Albert Bender, Showboat Fisher, Camilo Pascual, Harmon Killebrew, Scott Erickson, David Ortiz, and Joe Ryan.  1903 18-year-old Minnesota native Charles Albert Bender pitched a four-hit shutout in his first major league s...16074Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:11:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/history/don-cooper-achieved-fame-as-white-sox-pitching-coach-but-did-you-know-he-was-once-a-twin-r16075/Mr. Don Cooper played parts of two seasons for the Twins in the early 1980s. While he had an ordinary pitching career with the Twins, he made a bigger mark later as a coach for one of the Twins’ most fierce rivals. Don Cooper was born in New York City on January 15, 1956. From an early age,...16075Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:14:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/history/pat-meares-the-forgotten-twins-shortstop-of-the-1990s-r16027/Pat Meares was a decent major league player cursed to play for two bad 1990s franchises. What did he do to deserve that? Pat Meares seemed like a capable player in the post-1991 World Series era. He came up and performed admirably with the Twins for six seasons, and when he became too expen...16027Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:14:01 +0000