In the 2001-2002 offseason, the Minnesota Twins franchise was nearly extinguished. The harebrained and somewhat nefarious contraction scheme hatched by MLB Commissioner Bud Selig—and seemingly fully endorsed by Twins owner Carl Pohlad—put MN on the brink of being baseball-less. Fortunately, Hennepin County Judge Harry Crump’s ironclad interpretation of stadium lease laws kept the team from pulling up stakes.
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