September 25, 20179 yr A personal favorite of mine, Ray Corbin. He had an injury (shoulder?) and could only pitch about once a week. Stayed active the entire season despite the injury.
September 26, 20179 yr Holy cow, 17 pages already? (I know Phil Rizzuto didn't play for the Twins, but Ho-lee Cowww ) Danny Walton is my favorite obscure Twin.My two favorite prominent players with obscure stints with the Twins are Graig Nettles and Luis Tiant. Any mentions for those yet? (I was distracted while posting this - we're probably up to 30 pages now.) (I had to edit to close the parentheses - only 18 pages.) Edited September 26, 20179 yr by gil4
September 26, 20179 yr Willie Norwood seems not to have been mentioned in this thread. Is that because he is indeed "a legend"?His glove was legendary.
September 26, 20179 yr Holy cow, 17 pages already? (I know Phil Rizzuto didn't play for the Twins, but Ho-lee Cowww ) Danny Walton is my favorite obscure Twin.My two favorite prominent players with obscure stints with the Twins are Graig Nettles and Luis Tiant. Any mentions for those yet? (I was distracted while posting this - we're probably up to 30 pages now.) (I had to edit to close the parentheses - only 18 pages.)If we mention Graig Nettles we should also mention younger brother and outfielder Jim Nettles.
September 26, 20179 yr If I ever get a Twins jersey, this will be the exact one. I have a home jersey with the right number, wrong name - Liriano.
September 26, 20179 yr If we mention Graig Nettles we should also mention younger brother and outfielder Jim Nettles. I might have if I had heard of him. I looked at his Baseball Reference page. He was a player until he was 35 and got 665 MLB plate appearances. Then he managed a while in A ball. Baseball has a lot of guys who must really love the game because they sure didn't stick around for the money back then.
September 26, 20179 yr I think they printed 1000's of this card http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/80/80-363Fr.jpgCan't imagine he's been mentioned yet
September 26, 20179 yr Great thread. I have a visual image of almost all of these guys. My first Twins game, I say Bernie Allen hit a game winning home run against Detroit. He had been a quarterback at Purdue, and upset the Gophers in their great 1960? season. He and third baseman Rich Rollins were stars in the early Twins teams, before the 1965 champion season. I have not seen the name of Zoilo Versailles, the shortstop who led the Twins to the Series in 65. And other names - Reno Bertoia, who was the Twins first third baseman, soon supplanted by H. Killebrew. What a rich tradition!
September 26, 20179 yr in some circles, willie was known as the second coming of dr. strangeglove. of the original, '60s outfielder-turned-first-baseman dick stuart, it's been written: "Every play hit his way was an adventure, the most routine play a challenge to his artlessness. It is hard to describe this to anyone who has not seen it, just as it is hard to describe Xavier Cugat or Allen Ludden."14 errors in 115 games...in the OUTFIELD!!!!
September 26, 20179 yr Juan Rincon..was at a game we were playing the Yankees, and he was pitching to ARod. Guy behind me was yelling at some Yankees fans in front of me about how ARod was a roiding cheater... I told him he might want to wait till someone else was pitching. That's pretty funny. The Yankee fan should have said "Our roid cheater is better than your roid cheater" after the home run (which ARod always hit against us.)
September 26, 20179 yr Correct me if I'm misremembering after all these years, but didn't Redfern's career end to a fall or diving accident when he broke his neck?I don't remember if he was still playing when that happened.
September 26, 20179 yr Aaron Hicks /ducksYou need to at least update his stats before you mention that name again.
September 26, 20179 yr David Arias? Good thing they got rid of him - he was never going to amount to anything.
September 26, 20179 yr My first memory of a guy who could hit the ball far for the Twins was Gary Ward who was traded for John Butcher and Mike Smithson.
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