That year, Joe Mauer became only the second catcher in 33 years to win the AL MVP award.

In 2005, long-time assistant director Marc Mauer became the executive director of The Sentencing Project.

Blanco became a valuable member of the Twins when rookie catcher Joe Mauer was injured early in the 2004 season.

In addition, he became the first of four Twins to lead the league in WAR, a stat that measures a player's overall production both in the field and at the plate, ( along with teammate Zoilo Versalles, Rod Carew, and current Twin Joe Mauer ) and the only one not to win the MVP in the same season ( finishing a distant 15th behind winner Elston Howard and behind teamamates Camilo Pascual, Earl Battey, and Killebrew on the 1963 ballot ).

In his breakout 2006 season, Mauer became the first catcher in major league history to lead the majors in batting average and the first American League catcher to win the batting title, finishing with an average of. 347.

In 2008, he became the first American League catcher to win the batting title twice when he led the AL with an average of. 328 ; Mauer also won his first Gold Glove Award.

In 2009 Mauer led the American League in batting average (. 365 ), on-base percentage (. 444 ), slugging percentage (. 587 ), and OPS ( 1. 031 ) Mauer became the first catcher to lead the league in all four offensive categories in a single season, and the first catcher to win three batting titles.

The starting catcher for the second game, Mike Redmond, however, was forced to leave the game in the first inning due to injury after accidentally being struck in the head by the bat of Jim Thome, and Mauer had to take the field as the replacement catcher.

During the course of his thirty-six-year coaching career, Mauer was the head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky, Miami University, the University of Tennessee, the U. S. Military Academy, and the University of Florida.

Mauer was the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky from 1927 to 1930, immediately preceding the legendary Adolph Rupp.

Mauer later served as the head coach for the Army Black Knights men's basketball team of the U. S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, for four seasons from 1947 to 1951, and the Florida Gators men's basketball team of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, for nine seasons from 1951 to 1960.

After his final season as the Gators ' basketball mentor, Mauer returned to the University of Tennessee and worked as an assistant coach for the Volunteers football team from 1960 to 1963 under head coaches Bowden Wyatt and Jim McDonald.

Mauer was the first, and to date the only, person to serve as the head coach in the same sport at three different SEC universities.

John W. Mauer ( September 4, 1901 – December 20, 1978 ) was an American college basketball, baseball and football coach and multi-sport college athlete.

Auf der Maur's surname translates as ' On the Wall ', as ' maur ( die Mauer )' was derived from the German word for ' wall '.

His. 320 batting average was the highest career mark for catchers until Joe Mauer surpassed it in.

Because Minnesota's normal starting catcher Joe Mauer was in the game as the DH and no other catcher was available, Minnesota was forced to forfeit the DH position for the remainder of the game.

The jaw ( Mauer 1 ) was in good condition except for the missing premolar teeth, which were eventually found near the jaw.

In 1942, the Boston Braves purchased Lombardi's contract, despite his leading the league in hitting that season with a. 330 batting average ( albeit, in only 309 at-bats ); the next batting title to be won by a catcher came more than 60 years later when Joe Mauer won the AL batting title in 2006, a testament to how difficult it is for a catcher to win the title.

Joe Mauer was a 2003 FSL All-Star for the Fort Myers Miracle

Joseph Patrick Mauer ( born April 19, 1983 ) is an American baseball catcher in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for the Minnesota Twins.

Joe Mauer played football, basketball, and baseball for Saint Paul's Cretin-Derham Hall Raiders, the high school of Paul Molitor, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

" Mauer had been asked to leave his T-ball league at the age of four, because he was hitting the ball too hard for the other players.

Mauer caught for the Team USA Junior National team from 1998 to 2000 and hit. 595 during his final year on the team.

Mauer averaged more than 20 points a game as a point guard for Cretin-Derham Hall.

During his senior season as the Raiders ' quarterback, Mauer completed 178 of 288 passes ( 62 % completion percentage ), for 3, 022 yards, 41 touchdowns and 5 interceptions.

Mauer went 2-for-3 in his Major League debut, hitting a single off Rafael Betancourt of the Cleveland Indians for his first major-league hit.

A knee injury to his left medial meniscus on April 7, 2004, required surgery and sidelined Mauer for more than a month.

Following his injury-shortened 2004, Mauer signed a contract for $ 5. 7 million with the Twins on January 24, 2005.

In 2005, Mauer returned to the Twins ' lineup for his first full major league season and had 144 hits in 131 games, with 9 home runs and 55 RBI.

On June 12, Mauer was named the American League Player of the Week by Major League Baseball for his performance the week of June 4 – 11th, during which he hit. 625 ( 15-for-24 ) with 5 doubles, 4 RBI and 2 stolen bases.

On July 6, Mauer was announced as the starting catcher for the American League in the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

Mauer underwent surgery for kidney obstruction on December 22.

Mauer won his first Gold Glove award in 2008, announced on November 6, He finished fourth in the balloting for American League Most Valuable Player, behind Dustin Pedroia, Justin Morneau, and Kevin Youkilis.

Mauer appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated for a second time on June 24.

Mauer finished third in the AL with a. 327 batting average, and his 43 doubles rank second on baseball's All-Time list for doubles by a catcher ( behind Ivan Rodriguez's 47 with Texas in 1996 ).

On August 27, Mauer played his 832nd game at catcher for the Twins, breaking a franchise record set by Earl Battey.

Mauer modeled for Perry Ellis in the 2004 – 05 off-season, and is featured in television commercials for Head & Shoulders, Pepsi, ESPN, Fox Sports Net, PlayStation 3, Gatorade and my29.

However, at the backing of the newly seated director Colonel John C. Mauer, the Tennessee State Board of Vocational Education soon took over governance of the school, providing three associate's degree programs in engineering technology to 45 students on the first day of classes, September 23, 1974.

Mauer was posthumously inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.

Mauer attended the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois from 1922 to 1926, where he played for the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team.