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"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."– Rogers HornsbyExplore the Site This site currently contains ![]() Reflections on the last days of a bad baseball place. 78 pages, with over 50 full color images. Available on Amazon. Random Image ![]() The images on that wall appear to be of great Twins moments in history.
"Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move."– Satchel Paige"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference."– Tommy LasordaResearch Library "Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will."– Harry CarayRandom Image ![]() Friendly faces greet you right inside the door of the Legends Club.
"All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon."– Branch Rickey"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us."– Walt Whitman"Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain."– Casey StengelRandom Image ![]() 10 years ago, Bruce Lambrecht looked at this land and thought, "Why NOT a ballpark here?" It took a long time before anybody else saw the same potential.
"You talk about the magic, the aura, but what really makes a stadium is the fans. Concrete doesn't talk back to you. Chairs don't talk back to you. It's the people who are there, day in, day out, that makes the place magic."– Bernie WilliamsRandom Image ![]() One more exterior view shows that, while the original look was attractive in a way, it seems to be a variation on the look of the Washington ballpark (albeit with a much more coherent collection of elements). What's remarkable is that the design team has refined the concept amazingly well, improving it immeasurably. What we're actually getting is clearly descended from this, but it's in a whole different league:
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