We're Gonna Win, Twins!

Doug Grow (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2010
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-0-8166-5621-9 (ISBN)

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“Bill Dailey, Won’t You Please Come Home.” Billy Ball. The Lumber Company. Ten Acres of Roof. Homer Hankies. Bobblehead dolls. Piranhas. Twins Territory. In 1961, the Twins brought major league baseball to the upper Midwest, becoming the first team to claim with its name not just a city but a region. In We’re Gonna Win, Twins! longtime sports reporter and columnist Doug Grow chronicles a half century of Twins baseball, season by season, from the scrappy stars of Metropolitan Stadium through two World Series in the Metrodome to the opening of a new era at Target Field. Beginning each chapter with a snapshot of events in the world and in baseball, inviting fans to remember where they were when, Grow shows how teams were built and managed, from the arrival and departure of key players like Harmon Killebrew, Frank Viola, David Ortiz, and Torii Hunter to the unintended scouting trip that brought Kirby Puckett to the Twins. He profiles great players and great seasons-from the matchup of Koufax and Kaat in the 1965 World Series to the unlikely contenders of 1979 to perhaps the best World Series ever in 1991. Bringing fans behind the scenes, he shares the camaraderie and occasional scuffles in the clubhouse and tells the stories that animated even lackluster seasons, including the 1968 game when Cesar Tovar played every position. Taking us through two eras of owners, Grow captures the changing economics of baseball and vividly portrays the characters that defined the times-from the “holy cow” of original radio color man Halsey Hall to the sweet moments and struggles of players like Zoilo Versalles, the first Latin MVP, to the 2006 season when the major leagues’ batting title, MVP, and Cy Young Award all went to Minnesota Twins. As the franchise moves back out under the open air and into its fifth decade in the major leagues, the incredible insider view and stunning photographs of We’re Gonna Win, Twins! celebrate the year-in, year-out texture of the game, the oh-so-satisfying triumphs, and the angst that indelibly mark the true fan.

Doug Grow covered the Minnesota Twins as a sports columnist from 1979 to 1987, and as a metro columnist he wrote about the 1987 and 1991 World Series as well as the long debates over stadium funding. He is currently a journalist working for the online publication MinnPost.

Prologue: Celebrate Good Times, 1961 Twins Territory, 1962 Holy Cow!, 1963 One Season Wonder, 1964 The Cuban Connection, 1965 Integration, Beatles, and Triumph, 1966 Zoilo’s Pain, 1967 The Great Race, 1968 Harmon’s Stretch, 1969 Billy Ball!, 1970 Bill Ball, 1971 Endings, 1972 Living a Dream, 1973 Old and Slow, 1974 Apathy, 1975 Harmon: Going, Going, Gone, 1976 Bye, Bye Bertie, 1977 Rod’s Lumber Company, 1978 The Speech, 1979 Mauch’s (Almost) Miracle Team, 1980 Collapse, 1981 Last Rites for the Met, 1982 Moving Indoors, 1983 A New Foundation, 1984 Carl, Kirby, and Quirk, 1985 Boy Wonder, 1986 TK, 1987 Laughing to the Title, 1988 God’s Squad?, 1989 Sweet Music Sours, 1990 An Angel Booed, 1991 Greatest Show on Earth, 1992 Back to Earth, 1993 Baseball and Economics, 1994 Herbie’s Farewell, 1995 Decline Again, 1996 From Cheers to Tears, 1997 Who’s Don Beaver?, 1998 Old and Bad, 1999 Oh, Canada, 2000 Bobblemania, 2001 Hot Dog! A Revival, 2002 From Contraction to Playoffs, 2003 A Star Who Got Away, 2004 Who to Pick?, 2005 Pressbox under Siege, 2006 Nibble, Nibble, Nibble, 2007 Goodbye, Everybody, 2008 One Game Season, 2009 One Last Roar, 2010 Blue Sky Again, Stadium Timeline, Acknowledgments

Verlagsort	Minnesota
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8166-5621-5 / 0816656215
ISBN-13	978-0-8166-5621-9 / 9780816656219
Zustand	Neuware