In 1994, Puckett was switched to right field and won his first league RBI title by driving in 112 runs.

For the season, Puckett batted. 332 with 28 home runs and 99 RBI Although he hit only. 208 in the Twins ' five game AL Championship Series win over the Detroit Tigers, Puckett would produce in the seven-game World Series upset over the St. Louis Cardinals, where he batted. 357.

Statistically speaking, Puckett had his best all around season in 1988, hitting. 356 with 24 home runs and 121 RBI, finishing third in the AL MVP balloting for the second straight season.

In 1991, the Twins got back on the winning track and Puckett led the way by batting. 319, eighth in the league and Minnesota surged past Oakland midseason to capture the division title.

Lansford narrowly missed winning his second batting title in 1989 with a. 336 average to Minnesota's Kirby Puckett, who finished with a. 339 average.

Davis contributed to the Twins with his switch-hitting ability, as the Twins ' lineup already possessed right-handed batting Kirby Puckett and left-handed batting Kent Hrbek.

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Molitor was relishing the opportunity to play with Twins superstar Kirby Puckett, but Puckett developed career-ending glaucoma during spring training in 1996 and never played again.

Anthony Kirby Puckett ( March 14, 1960 – March 6, 2006 ) was a professional Major League Baseball center fielder who spent his entire 12-year baseball career playing with the Minnesota Twins ( 1984 – 1995 ) and is the Twins franchise's all-time leader in career hits, runs, doubles, and total bases.

In 1983, Puckett was promoted to the Single-A Visalia Oaks in the California League and although his average was not as high as the previous year — he still hit an impressive. 318, with 9 home runs, 97 RBI, and 48 stolen bases over 138 games — and continued to turn heads in the organization.

During the year, Puckett put on his best performance on August 30 in Milwaukee against the Brewers, when he went 6-for-6 with two home runs, one off Juan Nieves in the third and the other off closer Dan Plesac in the ninth.

The Twins then beat the Toronto Blue Jays in five games in the American League Championship Series as Puckett batted. 429 with two home runs and six RBI to win the ALCS MVP.

Puckett gave the Twins an early lead by driving in Chuck Knoblauch with a triple in the first inning.

After spending the spring of 1996 continuing to blister Grapefruit League pitching with a. 344 average, Puckett woke up on March 28 without vision in his right eye.

In March 2002, a woman filed an order for protection against Puckett's wife Tonya, alleging that Tonya had threatened to kill her over an alleged affair with Puckett.

That month, another woman asked for protection from Puckett, saying in court documents that she had had an 18-year relationship with him and that he had shoved her in his Bloomington condominium.

In September 2002, Puckett was charged with false imprisonment, fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct, and fifth-degree assault after being accused of groping a woman in a restaurant bathroom.

In the March 17, 2003 edition of Sports Illustrated, columnist Frank Deford wrote an article entitled " The Rise and Fall of Kirby Puckett ", that documented Puckett's alleged indiscretions and attempted to contrast his private image with the much-revered public image he had previously maintained.

Withdrawing from the team and friends, Puckett moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, along with his fiancee Jodi Olson and her son Cameron, in the winter of 2003.

However there was also optimism with news that Puckett planned to marry Olson in June 2005.

Former manager Tom Kelly surrounded by former teammates Dan Gladden, Jim " Mudcat " Grant, and Kent Hrbek, Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, and friends at the Memorial at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome | Metrodome on March 12, 2006On the morning of March 5, 2006, Kirby Puckett suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke at the home he shared with Olson.

They stop for a drink at a cowboy bar, where Thelma meets and dances with Harlan Puckett ( Carhart ).

During of summers of 2010, 2011 and 2012, The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie had heavy touring schedules throughout the U. S. both as part of the Happy Together: 25th Anniversary Tour: 2010 ", " Happy Together: 2011 " and " Happy Together 2012 ", along with The Grass Roots, Mark Lindsay ( 2010 and 2011 ), The Buckinghams, Gary Puckett ( 2012 only ) and ' Monkees ' member Micky Dolenz ( 2010 and 2012 ).

A study done by Charles Puckett of the University of Missouri found that vertically oriented navels with a T-shape were considered the most attractive.

It was off this Plexiglas wall that Twins player Kirby Puckett jumped to rob Ron Gant of the Atlanta Braves of an extra-base hit during Game 6 of the 1991 World Series ( a game that Puckett would win with an 11th-inning walk-off homer )-in later years, with the Plexiglas removed, it would have been a potential home run ball.

* Tim Puckett, the principal investigator of the Puckett Observatory World Supernova Search team, which has discovered over 200 supernovae since 1998.

) On September 28, 1995, Kirby Puckett, of the Minnesota Twins, was struck in the cheek by a Dennis Martínez fastball, breaking his jaw and loosening two teeth.

After several losing seasons, the team, led by Kent Hrbek, Frank Viola, Bert Blyleven, Jeff Reardon, and rising star Kirby Puckett, returned to the World Series, defeating the Tigers in the ALCS.

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", near similar to the 1991 Puckett home run description, a call he said he did to celebrate Jack, but would never repeat again in the same situation.

In 2000, he was voted the second-greatest Minnesotan sportsman of the 20th century by the sportswriters of the Star Tribune, coming in only behind Minnesota Twins Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett.

Examples include Ethel Mertz to Lucy Ricardo ( I Love Lucy ), Ed Norton to Ralph Kramden ( The Honeymooners ), Screech Powers to Zack Morris ( Saved by the Bell ), Major Roger Healey to Major Anthony " Tony " Nelson ( I Dream of Jeannie ), Rhoda Morgenstern to Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Sam Puckett to Carly Shay ( iCarly ), or even a group of people such as the Sweathogs to Mr. Kotter ( Welcome Back, Kotter ).

Puckett was the fourth baseball player during the 20th century to record 1, 000 hits in his first five full calendar years in Major League Baseball, and was the second to record 2, 000 hits during his first ten full calendar years.

After being forced to retire at age 35 due to loss of vision in one eye from a central retinal vein occlusion, Puckett was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001, his first year of eligibility.

After receiving no scholarship offers following graduation, Puckett at first went to work on an assembly line for Ford Motor Company.

After being promoted to AAA Toledo to start the 1984 season, Puckett was brought up to the majors for good 21 games into the season.

That year, Puckett hit. 296 and was fourth in the American League in singles.

In 1985, Puckett hit. 288 and finished fourth in the league in hits, third in triples, second in plate appearances, and first in at bats.

Throughout his career, Puckett would routinely appear in the top 10 in the American League in such offensive statistical categories as games played, at bats, singles, doubles, and total bases and such defensive stats as putouts, assists, and fielding percentage for league center fielders.

In 1986, Puckett began to emerge as more than just a singles hitter.

With an average of. 328, Puckett was elected to his first all-star game and he finished the season seventh in doubles, sixth in home runs, fourth in extra base hits, third in slugging percentage, and second in runs scored, hits, total bases, and at bats.