No smoking in the Metrodome
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Brian Duensing and Drew Butera at Twins golf outing today
why, you guys, why
Well … they got the color scheme right.
Oliva, Hrbek, and Carew statues
Target Field
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Photos by northstar78
76 03 ‘75 Twins Camera Day 09 - #29 Rod Carew (by snaebyllej2)
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BOB CLANTON (manager, North Mission Viejo Skylarks Little League team): [Nick Punto] was our best player, by a country mile. But whenever he put a ball in play and the throw went to first, he slid. Headfirst, every time. He’d just yell “GET MONEY” and slide.
JEFF ALVIN (teammate, North Mission Viejo Skylarks): every time. If he was safe, “GET PAID!”
CLANTON: we’d pull him aside and say, “Nick, you gotta run through the bag. Sliding slows you down and you’re gonna hurt yourself one of these days.” He’d just say, “Yeah, coach, got it, c’mon let’s gooooo!” Then he’d do it again anyway.
- Randball’s Stu, Twinkie Town/SB Nation
Read the rest: “An Oral History of Nick Punto Sliding Headfirst into First Base”
Photo via AaronGleeman.com](http://25.media.tumblr.com/ecd995b557ccb373dedf34c882706d3a/tumblr_mg8a5pJbxt1qzniimo1_500.png)
BOB CLANTON (manager, North Mission Viejo Skylarks Little League team): [Nick Punto] was our best player, by a country mile. But whenever he put a ball in play and the throw went to first, he slid. Headfirst, every time. He’d just yell “GET MONEY” and slide.
JEFF ALVIN (teammate, North Mission Viejo Skylarks): every time. If he was safe, “GET PAID!”
CLANTON: we’d pull him aside and say, “Nick, you gotta run through the bag. Sliding slows you down and you’re gonna hurt yourself one of these days.” He’d just say, “Yeah, coach, got it, c’mon let’s gooooo!” Then he’d do it again anyway.
- Randball’s Stu, Twinkie Town/SB Nation
Read the rest: “An Oral History of Nick Punto Sliding Headfirst into First Base”
Photo via AaronGleeman.com
Photo day, Metropolitan Stadium 1962. My Aunt digitized these old slides and gave some framed prints to my Mom for Christmas. My Grandpa was likely the photographer. My mom, 12 years old, is visible in the Athletics’ dugout on the left, and that’s my Grandma in the blue dress.
