Tag: 1961 Minnesota Twins

Remembering the Twins first season from 1961 – Week 15

I have been working on a very long term project whereas I do a brief recap of Twins games on my “In This Day in Twins History Pages.” So my plan is to give you a brief recap of the Twins first season as it plays out on a weekly basis. For more info on a particular game you can also click on the date and go to the appropriate “In This Day in Twins History Page” as there you will often get to see some player pictures and supporting documentation. We will see how long I can keep up with it, no promises. So let’s see what we have for week fifteen.

The 38-54 Twins are mired in ninth place 21 games out of the lead behind the New York Yankees who have a three percentage point lead over the Detroit Tigers. The embarrassing part is that both expansion teams (Senators and Angels) are ahead of them in the standings.

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Remembering the Twins first season from 1961 – Week 14

I have been working on a very long term project whereas I do a brief recap of Twins games on my “In This Day in Twins History Pages.” So my plan is to give you a brief recap of the Twins first season as it plays out on a weekly basis. For more info on a particular game you can also click on the date and go to the appropriate “In This Day in Twins History Page” as there you will often get to see some player pictures and supporting documentation. We will see how long I can keep up with it, no promises. So let’s see what we have for week fourteen.

The Twins are now 34-50 and mired in ninth place 20.5 games behind the AL leading Detroit Tigers who have the New York Yankees nipping at their heels just a 1/2 game back.

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Remembering the Twins first season from 1961 – Week 11

I have been working on a very long term project whereas I do a brief recap of Twins games on my “In This Day in Twins History Pages.” So my plan is to give you a brief recap of the Twins first season as it plays out on a weekly basis. For more info on a particular game you can also click on the date and go to the appropriate “In This Day in Twins History Page” as there you will often get to see some player pictures and supporting documentation. We will see how long I can keep up with it, no promises. So let’s see what we have for week eleven.

Starting a new week the ninth place Minnesota Twins are 25-40 on the season and 16.5 games behind the league leading Detroit Tigers.

Rain check from July 3 game against the White Sox.
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1961 Minnesota Twins baseball primer

Back in early December 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 finally have gotten the insert into a PDF format and I think Twins fans young and old will really enjoy it. It is a cool peak back into Twins history when life was a lot simpler and baseball was more fun. One of the funnier articles I found was a piece telling women how they should dress to attend a baseball game, don’t miss that one, it will make you laugh or maybe just scream. The ads will bring back memories of companies and businesses long since gone. Oh, and the prices of merchandise will astound you. One of the things that surprised me was as ad for a TV that had a remote, I didn’t know they had remotes back then, I thought we kids were the remotes.

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Back in 1961 you could outfit a new Twins player for $113

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.

1961 Twins schedule

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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