Across
- I also played for the NFL 49'ers as a running back
- Dropped ball dropped from Metrodome roof
- First Twins player to earn $100K in a season
- Belted Twins announcer Larry Calton
- Was a 10th round pick and went on to become the AL ROY
- Holds Twins best single season fielding percentage for an OF
- Selected number one overall in 1975 as a catcher by the Angels
- Tack Wilson's real first name
- Father of a two-time olympian female Skelton racer
- Native Minnesotan played in the bigs for 13 years and went on to coach the MN Gophers
- "Bruno"
- First player wearing Twins uni to get 3,000th hit
- Played on an Army team with Billy Martin
- 1991 opening day CF
- I wore number 1 and even pitched in a couple of games
- Hit two home runs in the same inning
- Played in Minnesota only one year and stole 37 bases
- Sent 4 bottles of Dom Perignon to KC clubhouse and got in trouble
- Was mentioned in W.P. Kinsella's novel "Shoeless Joe"
- Carlos Gomez nickname
- My brother was a HOF running back for the Browns and I only played 20 games for Twins but had a nice 15 year career
- Traded to Minnesota by BJays for Bobby KIelty
- Twins manager set this players glove on fire
- Twins first ever first round supplemental pick
- Selected by Arizona in 1997 expansion draft
- Turned down a football scholarship to University of Michigan to sign with the Twins
- FA signed by Twins that hit GS and had 6 RBI in Twins debut
- I hold the Twins longest hitting streak at 31 games
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- 1967 AL MVP Yaz received all votes but the one this Twins OF got
- Struck out fives times and hit into a DP in same game
- First Twins bobble-head give away in 2000
- Hit a HR in his first big league at bat off Jack Morris and never hit another big league home run
- Had to over come Tourette's Syndrome
- Lost ball in the sun against Indians and got conked on the head
- Related to HOF "Highpockets" Kelly
- His only 2 home runs in brief 21 game stay in Minnesota but once hit 40 HR for the Reds
- Had a cameo in a sketch on SNL in 1997
- "The Hammer"
- Left Twins in the prime of his career to play in Japan
- "Disco Danny"
- 1965 opening day CF
- The "Covington Clouter"
- "Mr. America"
- Only played in 242 big league games but won over 1,000 as a manager
- "Oak"
- 2009 Futures Game MVP but injuries have limited his big league career
- Hilario
- First Twins first round pick to make his big league debut with the Twins
- Hit 20 home runs in Twins lead-off role
- Hold Twins record for most stolen bases in a game with four
- One of the 2006 Piranhas
- A part of three team franchise shifts
- Hit first Twins GS home run in the Metrodome
- Called himself "The Utility Pole"
- Had 200 or more hits in a season five times
- Defensive replacement in Twins first game
- Murdered after leaving Twins as FA
- Former first round pick never lived up to hype as a player but doing well as GM in Oakland
- One time Twin that replaced Mantle at 1B during Mick's final game
- Stole home twice
- First DH to hit a home run
- 1987 opening day LF
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