October 15 – This Day in Twins History

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2019 – The human behind — and inside — Minnesota Twins mascot T.C. Bear is out of the costume for good. Greg Wilfahrt is no longer portraying the wide-eyed and permanently smiling mascot that he has embodied since the caricature’s birth in 2000, a role he played without missing a regular season or playoff home game for 20 seasons, a team official said Wednesday. “The Twins have made a change,” according to team spokesman Dustin Morse, who said the move took effect Tuesday. The change means that Wilfahrt is no longer employed by the team, whose directory had listed him as “mascot supervisor,” Morse said. Morse declined to say whether the 46-year-old Wilfahrt initiated the move or was fired. “Greg departed the organization, and we thank him for his many years of service,” was all the spokesman would say. The hunt is on for a new TC bear.

UPDATE February 4, 2020 – Twins hire not one but two people to be mascot T.C. Bear – Read all about

1995 – Thelma Griffith Haynes, the former co-owner and executive of the Minnesota Twins baseball club died at the age of 82. Haynes of Lexington Parkway, Orlando, who co-owned the team with her brother, Calvin Griffith of Melbourne, sold it to Carl Pohlad in 1984. Her father, Clark Griffith Sr., founded the Washington Senators in the early 1920s. The family moved the ball club to Minnesota in 1961. Orlando was the team’s spring training site from the 1930s until 1990.Born in Montreal, Canada, she moved to Central Florida in 1982.

1968 – The Twins lose outfielders Bob Oliver and Pat Kelly, shortstop Jack Hernandez, and pitcher Jerry Cram to the Kansas City Royals, and pitcher Buzz Stephen and third baseman Rich Rollins to the Seattle Pilots in the 1968 expansion draft.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1964 – The Twins trade catcher Joe McCabe to Washington for catcher Ken Retzer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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