Minnesotan Major (and Minor) Leaguers

Telling the stories of the professional ballplayers who grew up in Minnesota. Sister project of @TwinsAlmanac.

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Only about 152 major leaguers have grown up in Minnesota.

• 11 played in just one game.

• 44 played in fewer than 10 games.

• 47 played in just one major league season.

• 59 made their major league debuts before World War II.

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@MSMABA79 Top teams to face-off against the top teams from @TheFedMN playoffs to determine the best 35+ team in the state?

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@CaseyMPLS Do I remember correctly that there was a sprinkle out on losers’ bracket Sunday at Alimagnet last year, too? (Obviously our teams wouldn’t have been affected.)

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@imthe1nonlyD @TwinsAlmanac You and Widerski should talk about me hitting a goddamn line drive sometime.

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@imthe1nonlyD @THolt0184 I love how both the umpire and the announcers are just like, “Well, that’s World Series baseball for ya.”

That’s when men were men, unlike these sissies playing the game nowadays ;)

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@chisagobulldogs @IsantiRedbirds Lucky. I’m 15 miles from there and we barely got any rain.

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On This Date in 1998: In a blockbuster trade that the @LATimes called “one of baseball’s biggest,” the Dodgers send Mike Piazza and Todd Zeile to the Marlins for Gary Sheffield, Bobby Bonilla, Charles Johnson, St. Cloud legend Jim Eisenreich, and minor leaguer Manuel Barrios.

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#OTD in 1884, Charles Albert Bender was born in Crow Wing County, MN. Here’s my painting of the Ojibwe tribesman before the fourth game of the 1911 World Series. I don’t think I’m in the minority of people who wouldn’t kill for that sweater.

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Happy 26th birthday to 2015 Wayzata graduate Joey Gerber, who made it to the majors with the Mariners in 2020.

Didn't allow a hit in his first two MLB relief appearances, retiring Albert Pujols, Mike Trout, and Shohei Ohtani.

Pitched for the townball @MNHamelHawks in 2016.

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Kent Hrbek had six-straight multi-hit games between April 24th and 30th, 1988, going 13-for-24 (.542) with nine of those 13 hits going for extra bases (five doubles and four homers).

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With the addition of Jerry Kindall’s 1958 rookie card, I now have every @Topps card of a Minnesota high school graduate from the 1950s.

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Sauk Rapids native Rip Repulski began the 1955 season with a 10-game hitting streak during which he went 20-for-48 (.417), concluding with a three-hit game 68 years ago today.

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Hill-Murray graduate Tom Quinlan had a nice stretch of games between April 17th and 23rd, 1988, connecting for four home runs at double-A Knoxville.

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Lou Galvin was born in St. Paul on this date in 1863. He went 0-2 in three starts with the 1884 St. Paul White Caps of the Union Association (generally considered a major league).

Read more about this date in Minnesota baseball history in the Almanac. https://t.co/XDzEwCtvoa

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I pity the catcher.

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@uniformcritic Outstate Minnesota natives Charley Albert Bender, “Bullet” Joe Bush, and Rube Walberg all won World Series rings with the Philadelphia A’s.