After posting our preview of Target Field, the new home of the Minnesota Twins, we were swept by waves of nostalgia for our misspent youth and put together a look back at Metropolitan Stadium, the first home of the Twins after the franchise moved from Washington.
After posting our preview of Target Field, the new home of the Minnesota Twins, we were swept by waves of nostalgia for our misspent youth and put together a look back at Metropolitan Stadium, the first home of the Twins after the franchise moved from Washington.
You never forget your first, and the Met was our first. It was a gorgeous summer night in the summer of 1979, and Roger Erickson was on the mound for the Twins. There was a ticket promotion that night, so the place was filled with Lutheran church groups. The final score didn't really count, and neither did the crappy seat location; what mattered was that after years of watching games on television and listening to Herb Carneal on the radio, we were finally attending our first Major League Baseball game.