Minnesota Twins

The Minnesota Twins, established as the Washington Senators in 1901, moved to Minnesota in 1961. The team won the World Series in 1924 as the Senators, and later in 1987 and 1991 as the Twins. Some of baseball’s greats have played for the Twins, including Harmon Killebrew, Rod Carew, and Kirby Puckett. In recent years, the team has been consistently competitive, frequently contending in the American League Central.

Max Kepler, White Privilege, and the Problem of Willful Blindness

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Originally Posted on the Previous Iteration of Baseball.FYI by Sheryl Ring Last week, the United States was once again confronted with its long and deeply ingrained history and culture of institutional and systemic racism with the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by Minneapolus police officer Derek Chauvin. Back in March, Breonna Taylor, a Black nurse, … Read more