Nishioka's broken leg in a collision at second base led the way and was followed by DL stints from Kevin Slowey, Joe Mauer, Jason Repko, Thome, Delmon Young ( two stints on the DL ), Jose Mijares, Glen Perkins, Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano, Jason Kubel, Denard Span ( two stints ), Justin Morneau, Scott Baker, and Alexi Casilla.

The first regular season game in Target Field was played against the Boston Red Sox on April 12, 2010, with Mauer driving in two runs and going 3-for-5 to help the Twins defeat the Red Sox, 5 – 2.

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.

By then, his father was already suffering symptoms of advanced syphilis, among them increasing mental instability, and was eventually institutionalized at the recently established ( and imperially sponsored ) insane asylum at Mauer Öhling, 125 kilometers west of Vienna.

MLB Batting title winner Joe Mauer was a River Bandit during the Twins affiliation.

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.

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 first fossil discovery of this species was made on October 21, 1907, and came from Mauer where the workman Daniel Hartmann spotted a jaw in a sandpit.

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

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

Former Twins farmhand and older brother of Twins catcher Joe Mauer, Jake Mauer, was named manager of the team after having led the GCL Twins to a wild card victory in and the South Division crown in.

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

Cretu's third solo album was titled Die Chinesische Mauer and was released in 1985.

Several of the tracks on The Invisible Man were edited slightly and, therefore, was different length than the German-language versions on Die Chinesische Mauer.

Design work took place from 1992 to late 1993 when a final design, helmed by Michael Mauer under design chief Bruno Sacco was chosen and approved by the executive board.

Written by Raymond J. Mauer and directed by Anthony Rizzo of Archer Productions and made with the help of schoolchildren from New York City and Astoria, New York, it was shown in schools as the cornerstone of the government's " duck and cover " public awareness campaign.

" 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.

In, Mauer was voted the United States District V Player of the Year.

Mauer was honored as the 2001 Gatorade National Player of the Year, was named to the USA Today All-USA high school football team, was honored as USA Today's Player of the Year, and was a Reebok / ESPN High School All-American.

Along with Johan Santana ( Pitcher of the Month ) and Francisco Liriano ( Rookie of the Month ), Mauer was part of the first-ever single-team sweep of MLB's three monthly awards.

* In the second game of a doubleheader between the Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox on July 6, 2007, the Twins initially used their starting catcher, Joe Mauer, as the DH because Mauer had started the first game at catcher.

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 ).

During the week of May 18 – 24, Mauer led the major leagues in batting average at. 458 ( 11 – 24 ), RBI with 13, and runs scored with 12, also hitting 4 HR and accumulating 25 total bases.

Through the month of May, Mauer lead the major leagues in AVG at. 414, OBP at. 500, and SLG at. 838, in addition to his HR and RBI totals, earning him his second Player of the Month Award honors.

Mauer struggled the entire summer with various ailments, from complications due to surgery in the beginning pnemonia at the end of the season, and had undoubtedly the worst season of his career.

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

Mauer at bat against Baltimore Orioles | Baltimore, Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome

Mauer taped an episode of Homecoming with Rick Reilly for ESPN on January 27, 2010 at Cretin-Derham Hall High School, his alma mater, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Among active catchers with at least 600 games played, going into the 2010 season he was third with a. 995 career fielding percentage, behind Mike Redmond (. 996 ) and Joe Mauer (. 995 ), and ahead of Brad Ausmus (. 994 ).

He was buried at the cemetery in the Mauer neighborhood in Vienna.

The Saab 9-X concept car was designed by Michael Mauer and Anthony Lo that worked at Saab Automobile.

He was also deeply involved in the construction of the Drafting Room at Taliesin West — which influenced the design of his Mauer House ( 1946 ) — collated photographs of Wright's work for a 1938 special issue of Architectural Forum and later briefly returned to Taliesin to help assemble models and materials for a 1940 Museum of Modern Art exhibition.

* Mauer parish church at Mauer bei Melk, with its carved altar from 1509, a masterpiece of the late gothic.

Church at Mauer bei Melk

The pilgrimage church at Mauer bei Melk, which belongs to the Benedictine abbey of Göttweig was one of the oldest buildings of the area, but none of it has been preserved to this day.

On July 2, Mauer was selected by the players to his first All-Star Game.

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

In December 2009, Sports Illustrated magazine included Mauer in its article on ten " signature " moments in U. S. high-school sports in the 2000 – 2009 decade, referring to his selection by the Minnesota Twins as the first pick in the 2001 amateur draft.

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 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.