Minnesota Twins at the All Star Game

Joe Mauer is the Twins lone All Star representative tonight in Kansas City. In over 52 seasons in Minnesota, the Twins have had many All Stars, obviously at least one each year. There are the greats of the game, like Killebrew, Carew and Puckett who went to many All Star games. And there are the Coomer's and Engel's. Below, I'll post all of the Twins All Star representative by years, with some notes to follow. Feel free to discuss the best and the worst, and any other notes you find interesting:

1961 - Harmon Killebrew, Camilo Pascual

1962 - Earl Battey, Jim Kaat, Camilo Pascual, Rich Rollins

1963 - Bob Allison, Earl Battey, Harmon Killebrew, Zoilo Versailles[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK]

1964 - Bob Allison, Jimmie Hall, Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Camilo Pascual

1965 - Earl Battey, Jim "Mudcat" Grant, Jimmie Hall, Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Zoilo Versailles

1966 - Earl Battey, Jim Kaat, Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva

1967 - Rod Carew, Dean Chance, Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva

1968 - Rod Carew, Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva

1969 - Rod Carew, Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, John Roseboro

1970 - Rod Carew, Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Jim Perry

1971 - Leo Cardenas, Rod Carew, Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Jim Perry

1972 - Rod Carew

1973 - Bert Blyleven, Rod Carew

1974 - Rod Carew

1975 - Rod Carew

1976 - Rod Carew, Butch Wynegar

1977 - Rod Carew, Larry Hisle, Butch Wynegar

1978 - Rod Carew

1979 - Roy Smalley

1980 - Ken Landreaux

1981 - Doug Corbett

1982 - Kent Hrbek

1983 - Gary Ward

1984 - Dave Engle

1985 - Tom Brunansky

1986 - Kirby Puckett

1987 - Kirby Puckett

1988 - Gary Gaetti, Tim Laudner, Kirby Puckett, Jeff Reardon, Frank Viola

1989 - Gary Gaetti, Kirby Puckett

1990 - Kirby Puckett

1991 - Rick Aguilera, Jack Morris, Kirby Puckett

1992 - Rick Aguilera, Chuck Knoblauch, Kirby Puckett

1993 - Rick Aguilera, Kirby Puckett

1994 - Chuck Knoblauch, Kirby Puckett

1995 - Kirby Puckett

1996 - Chuck Knoblauch

1997 - Chuck Knoblauch

1998 - Brad Radke

1999 - Ron Coomer

2000 - Matt Lawton

2001 - Cristian Guzman, Joe Mays, Eric Milton

2002 - Eddie Guardado, Torii Hunter, AJ Pierzynski

2003 - Eddie Guardado

2004 - Joe Nathan

2005 - Joe Nathan, Johan Santana

2006 - Francisco Liriano, Joe Mauer, Johan Santana

2007 - Torii Hunter, Justin Morneau, Johan Santana

2008 - Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, Joe Nathan

2009 - Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, Joe Nathan

2010 - Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau

2011 - Michael Cuddyer

2012 - Joe Mauer

It is a lot of fun for me to look back at the Twins All-Star history. Here are some more notes:

• Kirby Puckett was the All Star game MVP in 1993.
  
• In 1961 and 1962, there were two All Star games. In 1961, Harmon Killebrew was selected to play in both. In 1962, Earl Battey, Camilo Pascual and Rich Rollins played in both.
  
• Joe Mauer is representing the Twins for the 5th year in the All-Star game. That puts him in 5th place on the Twins list, moving ahead of Earl Battey, Joe Nathan and Chuck Knoblauch who each represented the Twins four times.
  
• Rod Carew is tops on that list with 12 consecutive All Star appearances with the Twins from 1967-1978. Harmon Killebrew represented the Twins ten years between 1961 and 1971 (only missing 1962). Kirby Puckett went to ten consecutive All Star games from 1986-1995 (and probably would have gone a few more times). Tony Oliva went to eight straight from 1964-1971.
  
• The 1987 World Series champion Twins only had one representative at the All Star game that season. The following year (when they actually had a better regular season record), they had five representatives.
  
• From 1967-1971, Rod Carew, Harmon Killebrew and Tony Oliva went to all five All Star games.
  
• Oliva and Killebrew teamed at the All Star game each season from 1964-1971. Following that duo on the list are Rick Aguilera and Kirby Puckett who were All Stars together from 1991 through 1993, and Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau who both went in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
  
• The Twins hosted the All Star game in 1965 and 1985.
  

What else do you enjoy about the All Star game? For me, it's about the player introductions and then to see how well the Twins players do in their opportunities. It should not be a game to determine Home Field Advantage in the World Series. It is an exhibition of MLBs players and teams and I wish that's what it was about.

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