Comments on: Twins History Lesson: July 11-17. All-Star Edition

By: amanda

amanda — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:05:56 +0000

I have a question for you that I can’t seem to find anywhere on the web. Who pitched the first ever Twins game?

By: jamar1700

jamar1700 — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:31:18 +0000

How painful for you.

I know you can all probably read my typonese by now, but still….

By: jamar1700

jamar1700 — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:29:26 +0000

Your inner Gardy? Hoq painful for you.

By: Jim Crikket

Jim Crikket — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:25:19 +0000

Thanks for spotting the error, James, I’ve corrected the post.

I totally agree with you about the July 16, 1969 item. Actually, Dave Wright dedicated almost 2 full pages to that game in his terrific “162-0″ book (link at the bottom of the post) and I had to leave even more details about that game out of the post, for the sake of brevity.

In all likelihood, however, Carew’s accomplishment probably got little notice by anyone except die hard baseball fans. Seems there was an event down in Florida that day that got most of the nation’s (and perhaps the world’s) attention. It was on July 16, 1969 that Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong lifted off from their launch pad in Apollo 11… four days before Armstrong made his “one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind” on to the moon.

By: James

James — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:49:48 +0000

1993 should read Kirby Puckett, not Torii

the 1969 factoid is amazing on so many levels