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The Twins could probably have used his bat that season as the team's three catchers, Battey, Jerry Zimmerman, and Russ Nixon, combined to only hit. 176 and the Twins went 2-5 in late September and lost the pennant to the Red Sox in the last game of the season.
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Commissioner Bud Selig, who earlier had threatened to disband the team, observed that without the new stadium the Twins could not have committed to sign their star player, catcher Joe Mauer, to an unprecedented 8-year, $ 184 million contract extension.
* The Corsican Twins ( Skip Hinnant and Jim Boyd ): Twin brothers who could inflict pain on each other by hurting themselves while they taught different phonics.
At the 2006 Hong Kong Entertainment Awards ceremony Choi tearfully acknowledged that there have been criticisms of the Twins ' singing abilities and that she hoped that they could better improve in the coming year.
From 2003 through 2009, the Twins had year-to-year leases, and could have moved to another city at any time.
However, with no large American markets or new major-league-quality stadiums existing without a current team, it was accepted that the Twins could not profit from a move.
In February, the district court ruled that the Twins ' lease was year to year and the team could vacate Metrodome at the end of the 2005 season.
The Gaines Twins could not use their powers on Kraven ( as his senses were too keen for their abilities ).
The Wonder Twins have a pet Space Monkey called Gleek who had a useful prehensile tail and who could act as a conduit for the twins to activate their powers should they be out of reach.
After Mauer caught several games with the Miracle, it was speculated he could return to the Twins as early as June 16 or 17, but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire did not commit to a return date.
" When I was 16, my father, with Wite-Out, rolled forward the odometer on my birth certificate so that I could sell beer at Minnesota Twins games, where the official brand was Schmidt, whose brewery, in St. Paul, bore enormous, electrified letters that lit up at night ," he wrote.
After releasing records with 4AD for a large part of their career, Cocteau Twins decided to take a step towards independence and started up the Bella Union record label, through which they could release their own work as well as any collaborative efforts.
Other villains Jean-Paul faces include Mr. Freeze, the Trigger Twins, Joker, Gunbunny & Gunhawk, the Tally Man, and Clayface ; the most notable encounters are with Catwoman and the Joker, both of whom could tell Valley was not the original Batman.
Grain Belt billboard signs could be seen on the scoreboard at Minnesota Vikings games and the beer was a popular choice in the stands at Minnesota Twins games.
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In 1997, owner Carl Pohlad almost sold the Twins to North Carolina businessman Don Beaver, who would have moved the team to the Piedmont Triad area.
Had the Brewers elected not to move to the National League, the Minnesota Twins would have been offered the opportunity next.
He would have given anything to be going up north to play the Minnesota Twins in the 1987 World Series.
Although the Tigers have been the predominant MLB parent of the IL Mud Hens ( 1967 – 73 and since 1987 ), the team has also been affiliated with the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1974 – 75 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1976 – 77 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1978 – 86 ) and the Yankees ( 1965 – 66 ).
Similarly, Nancy Drew mystery books are published as though they were written by Carolyn Keene, The Hardy Boys books are published as the work of Franklin W. Dixon, and The Bobbsey Twins series are credited to Laura Lee Hope, although several authors have been involved in each series.
Contemporary archaeologists ( first of all Michael D. Coe ) have found depictions of characters and episodes from Popol Vuh on Maya ceramics and other art objects ( e. g., the Hero Twins, Howler Monkey Gods, the shooting of Vucub-Caquix and, as many believe, the restoration of the Twins ' dead father, Hun Hunahpu ).
It may be noted that the Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque, although stated to have changed into Sun and Moon, are never shown assimilated to god G.
Twins that are diprosopic parapagus have one trunk and dicephalic.
Twins that are dicephalic parapagus are dicephalic, and have two ( dibrachius ), three ( tribrachius ), or four ( tetrabrachius ) arms.
In 1987, the Twins reached the post-season for the first time since 1970 despite finishing with a mark of 85-77 ( a mark that would have put them 4 games behind fourth place New York in the American League East ).
The Yoruba also venerate their ancestral spirits through Egungun masquerades, Orò, Irumole, Gelede and Ibeji, the orisha of Twins ( which is no wonder since the Yoruba are officially known to have the world's highest rate of twin births of any group ).
Apart from their singing careers, Twins have also been involved in a number of advertisements.
Two years after the split, many have wondered whether Twins had become a myth.
The Twins have also been selected to promote several social campaigns in Hong Kong, such as summer activities for the " Hong Kong Home Affairs Bureau " in July 2003.
The former members of Cocteau Twins have remained active musically in the years since the band's demise.
" Rock acts that have cited The Birthday Party as an influence include LCD Soundsystem, White Zombie, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Mars Volta, Coil, My Bloody Valentine, Deerhunter, Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello, Cocteau Twins, The Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid, Melt-Banana, 16 Horsepower, Big Boys, Dinosaur Jr., and Tindersticks.
* This film marks the first on-screen battle between Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen, who both have had success in Hong Kong but never fought each other on screen until again later in the Hong Kong film The Twins Effect II, which starred Chan and his son in semi-major roles.
Throughout the years Bell fronted his own band, Space Twins, who have had various incarnations since 1993.
McCoy also became the first Finnish artist to have a gold record in the US, when Samantha Fox recorded a cover of The Suicide Twins ' song " The Best Is Yet to Come ".
With the field repair, the sliding pits and pitcher's mound used by the Twins and Gophers have been removed.
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.
Two of the tenants, the Gophers ( football ) and Twins, have moved out, while the Vikings playing their final years there until a new facility will be built on the same site.
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Modern xylophone players include Bob Becker, Evelyn Glennie and Ian Finkel. Alannah Currie of the Thompson Twins used it so swatter.
Other marimbists / composers using this technique include Dean Gronemeier, Robert Paterson and Kai Stensgaard. Alannah Currie of the Thompson Twins used it so swatter.
In 2009, the Cocteau Twins ' song " Alice " was used in Peter Jackson's film The Lovely Bones.
The last month of Major League Baseball's regular season often included one or two Saturdays in which the Twins and Gophers used Metrodome on the same day.
In the first part, the Twins hypnotized Spider-Man into thinking Kraven killed Mary Jane Watson and the Twins used this moment to have Spider-Man kill Kraven.
* 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.
The Tigers and Twins tied an American League record for total players used with 42.
After the death of Harmon Killebrew in 2011, the Minnesota Twins decided to wear their cream-colored third jersey – a direct throwback of the uniforms used for most of Killebrew's career – for every home game for the rest of the year.
The Astros, Brewers and Twins have two alternate uniforms with the same color, with one featuring the team nickname and used on home games ; the other featuring the city name and used on away games.
The Kensington Stone critic Erik Wahlgren had noticed that the carver had incised a notch on the upper right hand corner of the letter V. The Massey Twins note that a mark in that position is consistent with an abbreviation technique used in the 14th century.
The company however continued sporadically to promote the campaign, which included twins Jennie and Terrie Frankel in the late 1960s ; later " Doublemint Twins " included June and Patricia Mackrell through the 1970s ( who had also been the Toni Twins for Toni Home Permanent, which used the slogan " Which twin has the Toni?
* While searching for Red Rackham's Treasure, Tintin, Captain Haddock, and the Thompson Twins used diving suits, with varying levels of success.
The prizes were two decoder rings, which he and Turk used to pretend be the Wonder Twins.
The four-stunt format was sometimes used in conjunction with other special formats, such as Family Fear Factor, Twins Fear Factor, and Reality Stars Fear Factor.
Minnesota Twins ace Frank Viola also used the circle change to great effect.
Laura Lee Hope is a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Bobbsey Twins and several other series of children's novels.
Laura Lee Hope was first used as a pseudonym in 1904 for the debut of the Bobbsey Twins.
The park is also used as the Minnesota Twins ' Spring training facility.
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