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Even though they boasted some of baseball's most gifted players, the 1968 Minnesota Twins finished a dismal seventh in the American League. Recalls Catcher John Roseboro: "This was not a happy ball club. The guys couldn't get together with each other or the front office. Someone was always grousing about himself or conditions on the team." Suddenly, it is the other American League clubs that are doing the grousing-about Minnesota. With polished thievery on the base paths to complement their power at the plate, the Twins are leading the league's Western Division...
...only 55 bases in 164 games; this year, under the tutelage of Coach George Case, who pilfered 61 himself the Washington Senators in 1943 they have already stolen eight in eight games. Acquired in an off-season trade with the National League's Los Angeles Dodgers, Catcher John Roseboro one of the game's shrewdest tacticians: after shutting out the Senators on four hits in the Twins' opening game of the season, Pitcher Chance allowed as how he had shaken off only one of Roseboro's signs. "That," he said, "was one of the hits they...
Despite their hot streak, the Twins at week's end still trailed the Detroit Tigers by one game. So they are not spending any World Series money yet But for the moment anyway, says Catcher Roseboro, "we're having fun out there...
...left-handed side-kick Jim Kaat has arm troubles and may not pitch this year. Harmon Killebrew got lost in the Yaz excitement last year, despite his 43 homers--he is a great hitter. Oliva is still around and the Twins have picked up ex-Dodgers Roseboro and Perranoski...
Then came Drabowsky, who struck out Wes Parker, walked Junior Gilliam, and forced John Roseboro to foul out to retire the side. In the fourth and fifth innings, Drabowsky struck out the side, thus tying a 47-year old record of Cincinnati's Hod Eller, who struck out six straight batters in the 1919 World Series against the Chicago White...