I ran across a newspaper special insert that the Star Tribune had put out with their Sunday edition on April 16, 1961 that was over 100 pages long and was intended to introduce professional baseball to folks in Minnesota and the upper Midwest. The 100+ pages of course included a lot of advertisements but they in themselves are cool to look at and see how prices have changed over the years.
I hope to work on it in the near future and see if I can put together a PDF and share it with you long time Twins fans who I am sure will really enjoy it and I think you younger Twins fans will enjoy it too for all the Twins history it has back in the days when life was a lot simpler and baseball was more fun.
I have no idea what the Minnesota Twins spend on outfitting a major league player now days, but back in 1961 when the club first moved to Minnesota from Washington D.C. the cost for getting a player ready to take the field was $113 according to the Twins equipment manager Ray Crump. The PDF below will show you the specifics.
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