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Twins Are Coming Up Threes, Is Harmon Watching Over Them?

David Drew — Fri, 20 May 2011 05:09:47 +0000

Since the sad passing of Minnesota Twins legend Harmon Killebrew, who wore the #3, the team has found some success and that success has the number 3 involved an awful lot.

The Twins on Thursday scored in the first inning for the third consecutive game.

They hit three home runs in a game for the first time all season.

And they will bring a three-game winning streak into Friday's series opener in Phoenix against the Diamondbacks.

"You really can't make it up,'' Twins President Dave St. Peter said.

Twins Great Killebrew Dies

David Drew — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:27:44 +0000

Sad news out of the Minnesota Twins today, a true legend has passed.

Harmon Clayton Killebrew, an iconic Minnesota Twin known for his prodigious home runs and humble demeanor, passed away Tuesday morning at his Scottsdale, Ariz., home at the age of 74 after a nearly five-month battle with esophageal cancer.

Killebrew was the face of the Twins franchise for 14 seasons after the franchise moved to Minnesota from Washington, D.C. before the 1961 season. He is 11th on the all-time major league home run list with 573, of which 475 were hit wearing a Twins uniform. He has the eight highest single-season totals in Twins' history. And he became the team's first MVP in 1969 and its first Hall of Fame inductee in 1984.

Twins' Harmon Killebrew Enters Hospice Care

David Drew — Fri, 13 May 2011 23:19:26 +0000

Sad news out of the Minnesota Twins organization today. I remember being little and hearing my grandpa and dad talk about the Twins teams that featured Harmon Killebrew and looking at photos of him hitting monster home runs. A true class act appears to be entering his final days.

Legendary Twins slugger Harmon Killebrew, one of Minnesota's most beloved sports figures, said Friday that he is near death from esophageal cancer and is entering hospice care.