Across
- First ever Minnesota born pitcher to start in his major league debut for the Minnesota Twins.
- Nimrod native
- Knuckleballer who scaled Mount Kilimanjaro
- allowed 11 runs versus the Yankees
- I once pitched 13 innings in a start
- I was called for a balk before I delivered my first big league pitch
- Became first Twins pitcher to pitch 7 scoreless innings in ML debut
- Bull
- Holds Twins career games pitched mark
- The Gambler
- Pitched first Twins no-hitter
- One season I walked 127, struck out 130 and won 16 games
- Jim Grant nickname
- First native Minnesotan to appear in a Twins regular season game
- Pitching half of Twins oldest battery
- Bill Pleis nickname
- I hold Twins consecutive games lost record
- Had 144 KO's as a rookie
- Twins winningest pitcher
- I once gave up a league leading 129 earned runs
- Last Twins pitcher to bat in an All-Star game
- 14 pick-offs in one year
- Moore
- went hitless in 53 straight at bats
- Played baseball and football in high school with Ray Nitschke
- Seriously injured in a diving accident and paralyzed
- Last Twins pitcher to start an All-Star game
- El Gaupo
- As a rookie I pitched 265.2 innings
- Brunswick signed him to do off-season bowling exhibitions
- Wrote book called "I Played and I Won"
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Down
- My father and I both gave up homeruns to Ted Williams.
- First player in MLB history to approve being traded under the new “ten and five” rule
- One season I walked 16 batters intentionally
- Candelaria
- This Twins first round pick was born in Spain
- 20 game loser in 1961
- I pitched in 75 games my rookie season
- Holds Twins consecutive shutout innings mark
- Once a Sandanista guerrilla fighter in Nicaragua
- Pitched in 90 games for the Twins one season
- Oldest Twin to make his professional debut as a Minnesota Twins starting pitcher
- One of five players on the final vote ballot for the 2007 All-Star game.
- 1987 Saves leader
- I went 17-5 with 3.00 ERA and had 20 saves
- First native Minnesotan signed by Twins to reach big leagues
- Bum's pitcher who shutout Pirates in final game at Ebbets Field.
- Twins career leader in K/9
- Sir Shrek
- I am credited with winning the first MLB game on the west coast
- Tied for most games started by a Twins rookie pitcher
- Frank Viola nickname
- First Twins pitcher to record 4 KO's in one inning
- Led league in ERA in 1988
- One of two pitchers to give up 15 hits in a game
- Balked 3 times in a game
- Bedrosian nickname
- Twins draftee that pitched in the "bigs" for 24 seasons
- First Venezuelan to pitch in a World Series
- Posted 23 saves as a rookie
- Twins first 20 game winner
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