Jim KAAT and Tony OLIVA Enshrined
Growing up in Oklahoma City in the late 1950’s and the 1960’s I was a fan of baseball, major league, and minor league, with the hometown Triple A teams that played in All-Sports Stadium at the Fairgrounds in near NW OKC. My teams that I followed were associated the minor league OKC teams, starting with Houston Colt 45’s through the various big league teams that followed. But in truth, as we only able to see one major league game on TV, on Saturday’s, I fell in tune with the Minnesota Twins as that franchise was a staple on the local station that carried the Game of the Week.
This past Sunday, my most favorite pitcher of that time, was enshrined in the Baseball Hall-0f-Fame, Jim Kaat. And another great Twin that played with “Kitty Kat”, hitting extraordinaire Tony Oliva, was taken into the Hall with him on that wonderful day in Cooperstown. Kaat and Oliva are the fifth and sixth Twins to be selected to the Hall of Fame, following Harmon Killebrew (1984), Rod Carew (1991), Kirby Puckett (2001) and Bert Blyleven (2011).
I am a happy Twins fan today
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Feature photo: America’s Favorite Past Time by Justin Johnson.
