Minnesota Twins

2017 Minnesota Twins season

Established in 1901

Based in Minnesota since 1961


Team logo	Cap insignia

Major league affiliations

American League (1901–present)
- Central Division (1994–present)
- West Division (1969–1993)

Current uniform

Retired numbers

Colors

Navy blue, scarlet red, Minnesota Kasota gold, white

Name

Minnesota Twins (1961–present)
Washington Nationals/Senators (1901–1960)

Other nicknames

Twinkies

Ballpark

Target Field (2010–present)
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (1982–2009)
Metropolitan Stadium (1961–1981)
Griffith Stadium (1911–1960)
- a.k.a. National Park (1911–1920)
National Park (1903–1910)
American League Park (1901–1902)

Major league titles

World Series titles (3)

AL Pennants (6)

1924
1925
1933
1965
1987
1991

Central Division titles (6)

West Division titles (4)

Front office

Owner(s)

Jim Pohlad

Manager

Paul Molitor

General Manager

Thad Levine

President of Baseball Operations

Derek Falvey

The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Twins compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is named after the Twin Cities area comprising Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome from 1982 to 2009. They played their inaugural game at the newly completed Target Field on April 12, 2010.

The team was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1901 as one of the eight original teams of the American League, named the Washington Senators or Washington Nationals. Although the Washington team endured long bouts of mediocrity (immortalized in the 1955 Broadway musical Damn Yankees), they had a period of prolonged success in the 1920s and 1930s, led by Baseball Hall of Fame members Bucky Harris, Goose Goslin, Sam Rice, Heinie Manush, Joe Cronin, and above all Walter Johnson. Manager Clark Griffith joined the team in 1912 and became the team's owner in 1920. The franchise remained under Griffith family ownership until 1984.

In 1960, Major League Baseball granted the city of Minneapolis an expansion team. Washington owner Calvin Griffith, Clark's nephew and adopted son, requested that he be allowed to move his team to Minneapolis and instead give Washington the expansion team. Upon league approval, the team moved to Minnesota after the 1960 season, setting up shop in Metropolitan Stadium, while Washington fielded a brand new "Washington Senators" (which later became the Texas Rangers prior to the 1972 season).

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