The 85-win 1987 Minnesota Twins were huge underdogs going into the ALCS against the juggernaut Detroit Tigers. Five games later, however, the Twins were heading back to the Twin Cities as American League champions for the first time since 1965!
Welcoming them back to Mpls was a capacity crowd at the Metrodome. Not to see a game, mind you, but simply to cheer their boys of summer onto the World Series in what amounted to a gigantic pep rally.
To a man, every member of that ‘87 championship squad states that as the season’s most special moment.
The newbie: Kirby goes ham in Milwaukee.
Last Day Division Title (2006)
Killer Crushes #500 (1971)
Mudcat’s World Series Must-Win (1965)
Kirby Puckett takes Milwaukee (1987)