-- Billy Gardner's line double, which just eluded the diving Minnie Minoso in left field, drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run with two out in the last of the ninth to give the Minnesota Twins a 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox Monday.

) 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.

The first, a pre-season match-up between the Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins, drew more than 51, 000 spectators.

After a dramatic conclusion of the 2001 World Series, less than 48 hours later, Selig held a vote on contracting two teams, reportedly the Minnesota Twins and Montreal Expos.

To honor Thome, the Indians placed him at his original position, third base, for one pitch against the Minnesota Twins on September 25.

The 22-inning affair was the longest since August 31, 1993, when the Minnesota Twins, at home, defeated the Cleveland Indians, 5 – 4, in 22 innings.

In their inaugural game, on April 8, 1969, the Royals defeated the Minnesota Twins 4 – 3 in 12 innings.

Also of note are division rivalries with the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, and Minnesota Twins.

In recent years the rivalry with Minnesota has become more prominent, with the Twins ' consistent standings atop the division, as well as the relatively short drive between the two clubs in which many fans from Minnesota make the trip and heavily populate Royals home games versus the Twins.

The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Thus, the old Washington Senators became the Minnesota Twins.

Griffith therefore named the team the Minnesota Twins.

The Twins were eagerly greeted in Minnesota when they arrived in 1961.

In 1982, the Twins moved into the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, which they shared with the Minnesota Vikings, but the team continued to struggle.

The Atlanta Braves won all three of their games in Atlanta, and the Twins won all four of their games in Minnesota.

From 2001 to 2006, the Twins compiled the longest streak of consecutive winning seasons since moving to Minnesota.

In response to the threatened loss of the Twins, the Minnesota private and public sector negotiated and approved a financing package for a replacement stadium — a baseball-only outdoor, natural turf ballpark in the Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis — owned by a new entity known as the Minnesota Ballpark Authority.

As part of the deal, the Twins also signed a 30-year lease of the new stadium, effectively guaranteeing the continuation of the team in Minnesota for a long time to come.

Minnesota Twins all-time roster: A complete list of players who played in at least one game for the Twins franchise.

The Vikings played their first game at the Metrodome in a preseason matchup against the Seattle Seahawks on August 21, 1982 in a game Minnesota won, 7 – 3.

The Giants won their first playoff game against the Philadelphia Eagles, 20 – 10, and defeated the Minnesota Vikings 41 – 0 in the NFC Championship game.

The home team won every game of the contest, as Minnesota won the series.

They also lost in 1924, when the Washington Senators won their only World Series in their history ( prior to their move to Minnesota ).

The Redskins won a defensive battle against the surprising Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship Game, 17-10.

Gretzky made his coaching debut on October 5, and won his first game on October 8 against the Minnesota Wild.

Harkin won caucuses in Idaho and Minnesota while Jerry Brown won Colorado.

The University of Minnesota won both iterations.

He won a series of house and office-building commissions in Minnesota: the Endicott Building in St. Paul is still regarded as a gem.

McCoughtry led her team to the Finals for the second straight year, but despite breaking her own Finals scoring record, the Dream was swept for the second straight year, this time by the Minnesota Lynx, which won its first title behind a fully healthy Seimone Augustus.

Minnesota Public Radio has won more than 875 journalism awards, including the Peabody Award, both the RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting award of the same name, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton Award.

As the series shifted to Minnesota the Timberwolves had an opportunity to pull off the upset as they won Game 3 by a score of 98 – 90.

Entering the 2003 playoffs with the fourth seed in the West, the Canucks won their first playoff series in eight years, defeating the St. Louis Blues in seven games before losing to the Minnesota Wild in the second round.

The Stars won the Central Division, their first division title since 1983-84 ( when they were the Minnesota North Stars ) and were seeded 2nd in the ' 97 Playoffs.

They won all of them except for last, as they lost to the Minnesota Wild 5-3, costing them a playoff spot.

Winfield's 1972 Minnesota team won a Big Ten basketball championship, the school's first in 53 years.

Triton, coached by Don Henderson, won the Minnesota State Football championship in 1994 ( B Division ), 2000 ( AA Division ) and in 2006 ( AA Division ).

Triton, coached by Don Henderson, won the Minnesota State Football championship in 1994 ( B Division ), 2000 ( AA Division ) and in 2006 ( AA Division ).

Triton, coached by Don Henderson, won the Minnesota State Football championship in 1994 ( B Division ), 2000 ( AA Division ) and in 2006 ( AA Division ).

In November 2008 the Houston Hurricanes won the Minnesota 9-Man Football State Championship.

One of the city's claims to fame is when the 1970 high school basketball team won the Minnesota State Championship.

Gailey led the team to two playoff appearances with a 10 – 6 record in 1998 and an NFC East championship, but the Cowboys were defeated in the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals 20-7 ; after an 8 – 8 season in 1999 ( during which Irvin suffered a career-ending spinal injury in a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles ) ending in another playoff loss ( this time to the Minnesota Vikings 27-10 ), he was fired and became the first Cowboys coach who did not take the team to a Super Bowl.

The park has two developed areas: Windigo, at the southwest end of the island ( docking site for the ferries from Minnesota ), with a campstore, showers, campsites, and a boat dock ; and Rock Harbor on the south side of the northeast end ( docking site for the ferries from Michigan ), with a campstore, showers, restaurant, lodge, campsites, and a boat dock. The Tobin Harbor Trail at sunset

The Giants defense finished 13th overall under Sheridan, giving up 324. 9 yards per game, and the final two losses of the season against Carolina and Minnesota, in which the Giants gave up 85 points, ultimately led to the firing.

Significant investigations conducted by the NTSB in all modes of transportation in recent years include the collapse of the I-35 highway bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; the collision between two transit trains in Washington, D. C .; the pipeline explosion that destroyed much of a neighborhood in San Bruno, California ; the sinking of an amphibious vessel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; and the crash of a regional airliner near Buffalo, New York.

Commodore Perry and his men come ashore and, on their " March to the Treaty House ", demonstrate their goodwill by offering such gifts as two bags of Irish potatoes and a copy of Owen's " Geology of Minnesota ".

On July 2, Clemens collected his 350th win against the Minnesota Twins at Yankee Stadium, giving up just two hits and one run over eight innings.

Under wet conditions, the Chiefs defense dominated Super Bowl IV by limiting the Minnesota offense to only 67 rushing yards, forcing three interceptions, and recovering two fumbles.

Viking quarterback Joe Kapp's two incompletions and a delay of game penalty forced Minnesota to punt from their own 5-yard line.

Meanwhile, the Cowboys marched to the Super Bowl with playoff wins over the Minnesota Vikings, 20 – 12 in the NFC Divisional Playoffs, and the San Francisco 49ers, 14 – 3 in the NFC Championship Game, only giving up one touchdown in the two games.

After losing two straight games in November ( one to the rival Dallas Cowboys ), they finished off the regular season winning their remaining five games, including dominating wins over playoff teams Denver Broncos, 41 – 6, and Minnesota Vikings, 38 – 10.

For example, already in Sergio Corbucci's Minnesota Clay ( 1964 ) that appeared only two months after A Fistful of Dollars, you find an American style " tragic gunfighter " hero confronting two evil gangs, one Mexican and one Anglo, and ( just as in A Fistful of Dollars ) the leader of the latter is also the town sheriff.

After two years, an injury shortened his football career and he transferred to the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

They proceeded to Saint Paul, Minnesota, met up with Hamilton ( who had been recovering for the past month from his gunshot wounds in the East Chicago robbery ), and mustered a new gang, and the two joined Baby Face Nelson's gang, composed of Homer Van Meter, Tommy Carroll and Eddie Green.

Cities in the United States possessing side-by-side water towers labeled HOT and COLD include Granger, Iowa, Canton, Kansas, and St. James, Missouri ( Eveleth, Minnesota at one time had two such towers, but no longer does ).

After 1720, the Lakota branch of the Seven Council Fires split into two major sects, the Saône who moved to the Lake Traverse area on the South Dakota – North Dakota – Minnesota border, and the Oglala-Sicangu who occupied the James River valley.

Two teams were added in 1998 ( Detroit and Washington ) and two more in 1999 ( Orlando and Minnesota ), bringing the number of teams in the league up to twelve.

* William F. Wheeler, U. S. Marshal, Civil War officer, Minnesota territorial Librarian and secretary to two Governors, founder of Montana Historical Society, first in the West

The only time the two performed together was during the Minnesota State Fair.

Two hairless female kittens born in 1975 and 1976, Epidermis and Dermis, two barn cats in Minnesota, became an important part of the Sphynx breeding programme and further hairless cats were found in Texas, Arkansas and Minnesota.