I almost didn’t go to last night’s game. It was the middle game of a seven-game home stand. I was a bit tired. The Twins had already bested the Royals. And come on: just because I have season tickets doesn’t mean I have to go to every home game, right? Then I thought back to [...]

Listen, Joe Nathan. Just because you’re one of the best closers in baseball, and because you have a soul patch, and because you endorse those delicious ice cream sandwiches available from Metrodome concessions doesn’t mean you can continue to make the ninth inning a collective heart attack for Twins fans. Joe Nathan entered the game [...]

At 110 years old, Silas Simmons is perhaps the oldest person to have played organized baseball. He played for a negro league from 1912 to at least 1929, the New York Times reports. He is also the only Tampa Bay Devil Rays fan ever. (Officially, the oldest former major leaguer is Rollie Stiles, 99, of [...]

I was 11 years old when the 1987 Minnesota Twins made a remarkable journey through the postseason. In the months after the team’s World Series victory, I watched a slapdash documentary called “Twins Win!” over and over in my dad’s living room. Doing so burned several images in my mind. If memory serves: 1. When [...]

In today’s Star Tribune, Patrick Reusse explains how Kirby Puckett’s legacy of hard work has propelled the Minnesota Twins this season: There has been an insistence for two decades with the Twins that the game would be played by running hard to first base, and by concentrating as much on fielding as hitting, and by [...]