TWINS TRIVIA is hopefully a fun and informative site that will help you to better enjoy the Minnesota Twins and their wonderful history. “History never looks like history when you are living through it” – John Gardner, former Secretary of Health
Xfinity/Comcast subscribers will be able to watch Twins games on channel 1261. DirecTV and DirecTV Stream customers will get games on channels 668-3 (satellite) and 668 (streaming), respectively.
Spectrum will have Twins games on channels 428 or 468, or 319 in Wisconsin.
Midco will have games on channel 638.
Other TV providers that have agreed to carry Twins games:
My buddy here has assured me that his picks this season are right on the money. After months of study, research, computer analysis and a long conversation with the Woonsocket Rocket himself, the prediction for the 2025 American League Central Division is right here.
As a bonus he is throwing in another sure bet and that is that the Los Angeles Bums (Dodgers) will NOT be winning the World Series in 2025. He is not going to tell you the actual winner but he has a couple clues for you on who will win, it will be an American League team but no, it will not come from the AL Central. Alright, one more clue, it won’t be from the AL East either.
Test your knowledge and memory of the wonderful and fun Minnesota Twins history going back to 1961 by answering these 20 questions. It is a multiple choice, how tough can it be for you long-time Twins fans? The tough part of being a long-time Twins fan is that you have seen a lot of Twins baseball, but can you remember it? At the end it will tell you your score and and where you stand as a Minnesota Twins trivia expert. Feel free to note your score from your first try at the quiz in the comments section. Don't waste yor time looking up the answers, there will be no prizes as this is just for fun. Don't lie, the computer knows all.
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2 responses to “2025 Minnesota Twins trivia quiz”
Paul Doyle
Good stuff as usual, John.
Are you planning to do any highlights relatively to the 60th anniversary of the Twins first appearance in the WS in
1965? Great team with Killebrew, Oliva, Jim Kaat and a great seventh game-Koufax vs. Kaat.
And I will always remember Bobby Allison’s great running, sliding catch in an earlier game. I also remember Earl Battey throwing off his mask chasing a foul ball and face planting into a stanchion behind home plate.
As a Red Sox fan, it was refreshing not to see a WS with the Yankees not representing the American League.
Just for the fun of it I thought I would post today’s Minnesota Twins Game Notes out here so that those of you that have never seen them might see what you are missing. I try to post them every day during the regular season and they always have fun and interesting facts.
One of the few remaining members, Jose Valdivielso, of the 1961 Minnesota Twins passed away on March 4, 2025 at the age of 90. José Martinez de Valdivielso Lopez was born on May 22, 1934 in Matanzas, Cuba.
Valdivielso started his professional baseball career as a shortstop with the Class C 1953 Lubbock Hubbers in the West Texas-New Mexico League. During the 1954 season Valdivielso was assigned to the Washington Nationals in an unknown transaction and was sent from Lubbock to the Class B Rock Hill Chiefs and then on to the Class A Charlotte Hornets. He started the 1955 season with Charlotte but was called up by the Washington Nationals and made his MLB debut on June 21, 1955 at Griffith Stadium against the Chicago White Sox in a 6-1 Nats loss in which Valdivielso went 0 for 3. Valdivielso split his time with the Nats and their minor league teams in 1955-1956.
Valdivielso with Minneapolis Millers in 1958
Somehow he ended up playing for the Chicago White Sox AAA Indianapolis Indians in 1957 and in 1958 he split his time with the AAA Boston Red Sox Minneapolis Millers and the AAA San Francisco Giants Phoenix Giants. He started the 1959 season with the AAA Baltimore Orioles Miami Marlins and then low and behold he showed back up with the Washington Nationals where he played in the rest of the 1959 and the 1960 season.
In 1960, the team’s sixtieth and last season in Washington, Valdivielso was the Senators’ most-used shortstop, starting in 92 games and playing a career-high 117 contests. But by late September he had lost his starting job to Zoilo Versalles, a 20-year-old fellow countryman.
Valdivielso spent the 1961 season with the Minnesota Twins but only played in 76 games mainly as a defensive replacement and had just 158 PA’s in which he hit .195 with 29 hits and 9 RBI. One of those 29 hits was his lone Twins home run a long blast to left field that took place on June 4, 1961 at Tiger Stadium off Frank Lary in a 10-4 Twins loss to the Detroit Tigers. Jose played his final major league game at Met Stadium against the Detroit Tigers and went 2 for 3 with an RBI on the 1961 season’s final game, which was called in the top of the sixth inning on account of rain.
Valdivielso never played in the major leagues again and finished his career with the Minnesota Twins AAA Vancouver Mounties in 1962, and the Chicago White Sox AAA Indianapolis Indians in 1963-1964. In total, Jose Valdivielso collected 213 hits in the majors, with 26 doubles and eight triples to go along with his nine home runs.
The Minnesota Twins announced on March 10 that “Twins Pass” returns for 2025 season with access to all 81 home games for just $4 per game. One-time, all-in payment option of $324 available now through April 2 with access to all 81 regular season Twins home games, including the April 3 Home Opener. Monthly packages also available at a rate of $59 per month.
Twins Pass ticket holders can watch a game from any of Target Field’s wide variety of indoor and outdoor social spaces, located from foul pole to foul pole and on all levels of the ballpark (Club level access not included). Fans also have the option to upgrade on a game-by-game basis into select seat locations, should they choose.
If you are looking to catch a lot of Minnesota Twins games at the ballpark for an inexpensive price and can get by without a seat other than in the social spaces, then this might be just the deal for you.
Who is the youngest Minnesota Twins player to make his major league debut wearing a Twins uniform? That would be right-handed pitcher Jim Manning who was born in L’Anse, Michigan on July 21, 1943 and went on to become a legendary high school basketball player winning All-State honors as a junior and as a senior. Jim held the U.P. record of most points scored in his four-year career with a total of 2,137 points, all without playing with a 3-point line. While in high school he was offered a full scholarship to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in basketball and according to Tom Briere of the Minneapolis Tribune, Manning was all set to sign a baseball-basketball scholarship with the Minnesota Gophers, but declined because his first love was always baseball and the Minnesota Twins snatched him up.
Jim Manning
After signing with the Twins for $20,000 fresh from high school, the Michigan native pitched in 12 games for Wytheville of the short-season Class D Appalachian League in 1961. Dividing his time between starting and relief, he went 2-2 with a 4.40 ERA. Others playing at Wytheville that season included future Hall of Famer Tony Oliva, who hit .410 in 64 games, and future Twins infielder and manager Frank Quilici.
Manning entered spring training 1962 with the Twins with the slimmest of chances to make the team. The Twins went with a youth movement in 1962, their second season in Minnesota after relocating from Washington, with The Sporting News commenting on the team’s “incubator infield” of 23-year-old third baseman Rich Rollins, 22-year-old second baseman Bernie Allen, and 22-year-old shortstop Zoilo Versalles. Joe Bonikowski, a 21-year-old pitcher, made the team with a strong spring training, as did a relative graybeard, 25-year-old rookie Lee Stange. (Starting pitcher Jim Kaat was 23 but was no newcomer, beginning his fourth season with the franchise. Manning, just 18 also pitched his way on to the team. He secured another niche in Twins history when he was issued jersey number 42, becoming the first Twin to wear that number although this point has been questioned.
Manning’s big league career consisted of just 5 games, all with the Minnesota Twins. The amazing part is that he did it at the age of 18 after appearing in just 12 games in the Appalachian League a year earlier.
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