Posts Tagged “Minnesota Twins”

Farewell, Harmon Killebrew

May 18, 2011 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell 2 Comments

The great Minnesota Twins teams of the mid-1960’s were favorites of mine as epic opponents of the Red Sox. Tony Oliva, Jim “Mudcat” Grant, Earl Battey, Camilo Pascual, Bob Allison, Don Mincher, Zoilo Versalles, Jim Kaat, Cesar Tovar, Ted Uhlaender, Jim Perry, Rich Rollins, and the rest. Rod Carew joined…

I Think I Miss Zoilo Versalles

September 16, 2010 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell 5 Comments

I like baseball. I really like baseball and have liked it as far back as I can recall. One of my great memories is of my father taking me to a Red Sox-Minnesota Twins afternoon doubleheader at Fenway when I was 11 years old. It was the mid-60s, and the…