https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins-history/page/11/?d=1News: Minnesota Twins Historyenhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins-history/the-twins-almanac-an-81-pitch-gem-a-rule-5-catcher-and-a-42-year-old-pitcher-r17891/  March 8: Happy 68th birthday to former Twins pitcher John Butcher. He pitched a remarkable one-hour and 55-minute complete-game shutout on April 21, 1985. The Twins were on a nine-game losing streak, falling to 2-9 on the season entering the Sunday series finale in Oakland when Butcher hu...17891Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:24:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins-history/the-twins-almanac-march-2-happy-birthday-glen-perkins-terry-steinbach-r17856/Happy Birthday, Terry Steinbach: Happy 63rd birthday 1980 New Ulm High School graduate, Golden Gophers all-time great, and three-time American League All-Star Terry Steinbach. Here’s a fun story: the Gophers moved hotshot Edina third baseman Greg Olson to catcher to make room for up-and-com...17856Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:07:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins-history/when-mike-trombleys-long-career-ended-it-was-clearly-over-r17845/Michael Scott Trombley was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on April 14, 1967. Mike grew up playing baseball and football and excelled in each sport. Ultimately, Trombley elected to concentrate on baseball and attended Duke University in North Carolina. During summers, he returned to Massachu...17845Sat, 01 Mar 2025 14:10:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins-history/the-twins-almanac-weekend-edition-a-duensing-double-and-a-maurer-sighting-r17823/Feb. 22: Happy 42nd birthday to former Twins pitcher Brian Duensing. He is the only pitcher in Minnesota Twins history to win two games in one day—at least on paper. Duensing came in out of the bullpen in both games of a doubleheader in Chicago on August 9, 2013, retiring all four White Sox he f...17823Sat, 22 Feb 2025 18:15:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins-history/tom-klawitter-was-a-1985-spring-training-flash-in-the-pan-r17811/Neil Young once proclaimed, “It’s better to burn out than fade away.” A statement so profound it was reiterated by Def Leppard, the movie Highlander, and sadly, Kurt Cobain, among others. Is it true? Or is it perhaps better to fade away from one vocation to thrive in another?  Thomas Carl K...17811Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:10:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins-history/vic-power-was-the-first-in-a-long-line-of-excellent-defensive-first-basemen-for-the-twins-r17769/My Twins fandom/memory starts around 1980. Kent Hrbek would soon take the field and set a standard (at least for me) for what a solid defensive first basement should look like. Hrbek was followed by other excellent defenders at first, such as Gold Glove Award winners Doug Mientkiewicz and Carlos...17769Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:16:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins-history/ila-borders-makes-history-and-babe-ruth-plays-with-a-dog-the-twins-almanac-r17778/Feb. 15, 1994: Ila Borders became the first woman to pitch in a men's college baseball game on this date in 1994, giving up just five hits in a 12-1 Southern California College win over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.   She retired the first 10 batters she faced and took a shutout into the eigh...17778Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:56:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins-history/the-twins-almanac-war-heroes-record-cold-and-the-say-hey-kid-r17751/Feb. 8, 1925: Milt Nielsen was born in Tyler, MN 100 years ago today. (That's down between Marshall, MN, and Brookings, SD.)  After graduating from Lake Benton High School, he enlisted and served with the 110th Naval Construction Battalion through the end of World War II. Immediately after...17751Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:16:08 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins-history/twins-almanac-the-johan-santana-trade-r17712/Feb. 1; Happy 53rd birthday to former Twins outfielder Rich Becker. He had a heckuva game on July 13, 1996, going 4-for-6 with two home runs, a triple, and a double. Those four extra-base hits are tied for the most in Twins history, and the 13 total bases are tied for second-most. (Bet you know...17712Sun, 02 Feb 2025 12:30:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins-history/scott-leius-was-a-platoon-player-who-delivered-on-baseballs-biggest-stage-r17708/Scott Thomas Leius was born September 24, 1965, in Yonkers, New York. He graduated high school from nearby Mamaroneck, New York, before attending and playing baseball at Concordia College in Bronxville, New York. The Minnesota Twins drafted the right-handed hitting infielder in the 13th rou...17708Sat, 01 Feb 2025 16:16:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins-history/mike-pagliarulo-david-ortiz-kerry-taylor-kyle-garlick/Jan. 25: Happy 54th birthday to Roseau High School graduate Kerry Taylor. The Twins signed him as a free agent out of high school in 1989 but the Padres swiped him in the Rule 5 Draft prior to the 1993 season. He made 36 appearances with the Padres that season (including seven starts), going 0-5...17680Sat, 25 Jan 2025 14:50:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins-history/rich-reese-was-a-slick-fielder-famous-footnote-trivia-answer-record-holder-r17644/Richard Benjamin Reese was born September 29, 1941, in Leipsic, northwestern Ohio. He attended high school in nearby Deshler, Ohio. Reese was a star on the baseball team and credits the coach with getting him started: “He was quite an influence at a critical time in my boyhood, and I’ll never fo...17644Sat, 18 Jan 2025 13:54:38 +0000