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Metropolitan Stadium (often referred to as "the Met") was a sports stadium that once stood in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA. Bloomington is a city located in Hennepin County, Minnesota, a suburb south of Minneapolis. ...
It opened in 1956 as the home of a minor league baseball team, the Minneapolis Millers of the American Association, replacing ancient Nicollet Park and built to specifications of major league baseball. Although located in Bloomington, the stadium was paid for by the City of Minneapolis. In the 1950s, Calvin Griffith opined regarding the stadium that it was the finest facility in Minor League ball, and comparable to a top-tier stadium for the Majors. See also: 1955 in sports, other events of 1956, 1957 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing NASCAR Championship - Buck Baker The United States Auto Club (USAC) was founded to take over race sanctioning from the American Automobile Association (AAA). ...
Minor League Baseball, formerly the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues and also known in the past as NAPBL, National Baseball Association, and NA, is the organization which oversees the governing and organization of minor league baseball in North America. ...
The Minneapolis Millers were a professional minor league baseball team that played in Minneapolis, Minnesota until 1960. ...
The American Association was a minor baseball league at the Class AAA (Triple-A) level of baseball in the United States from 1902 to 1962 and 1969 to 1997. ...
Nicollet Park is a former baseball ground located in Minneapolis, MN. The ground was home to the minor league Minneapolis Millers of the Western League and later American Association from 1896 to 1955. ...
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ...
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Calvin Griffith (1911 - October 20, 1999), born Calvin Robertson in Montreal, Canada, was a Major League Baseball team owner (1955 - 1984). ...
The Millers were then the top farm team of the New York Giants, and there was some hope or expectation that the Giants might relocate there. However, the "Jints" chose to follow the Brooklyn Dodgers to the west coast. The City by the Bay had been the top farm team of the Boston Red Sox, so as part of the deal, the Millers' parent team then became the Red Sox. The Bostonians were certainly not planning to move anywhere, but another American League entry, the Washington Senators did, in 1961, to become the Minnesota Twins. The Millers and their perennial crosstown rival St. Paul Saints were then promptly folded by Major League Baseball. The Twins were joined that fall by a National Football League expansion team called the Minnesota Vikings. Major league affiliations National League (1883-present) West Division (1969-present) Major league titles World Series titles (5) 1954 • 1933 • 1922 • 1921 1905 NL Pennants (20) 2002 • 1989 • 1962 • 1954 1951 • 1937 • 1936 • 1933 1924 • 1923 • 1922 • 1921 1917 • 1913 • 1912 • 1911 1905 • 1904 • 1889 • 1888 West Division titles (6...
Major league affiliations National League (1890-present) West Division (1969-present) American Association (1884-1889) National Association (1872-1875) Major league titles World Series titles (6) 1988 • 1981 • 1965 • 1963 1959 • 1955 NL Pennants (21) 1988 • 1981 • 1978 • 1977 1974 • 1966 • 1965 • 1963 1959 • 1956 • 1955 • 1953 1952 • 1949 • 1947...
Major league affiliations American League (1901-present) East Division (1969-present) Major league titles World Series titles (6) 2004 • 1918 • 1916 • 1915 1912 • 1903 AL Pennants (11) 2004 • 1986 • 1975 • 1967 1946 • 1918 • 1916 • 1915 1912 • 1904 • 1903 East Division titles (5) 1995 • 1990 • 1988 • 1986 1975 Wild card berths...
American League The American League (or formally the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs) is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States of America and Canada. ...
1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ...
Major league affiliations American League (1901-present) Central Division (1994-present) West Division (1969-1993) Major league titles World Series titles (3) 1991 • 1987 • 1924 AL Pennants (6) 1991 • 1987 • 1965 • 1933 1925 • 1924 Central Division titles (3) 2004 • 2003 • 2002 West Division titles (4) 1991 • 1987 • 1970 • 1969 Wild...
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The National Football League (NFL) is the largest professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities and regions. ...
City Minneapolis, Minnesota Other nicknames The Vikes, The Purple People Eaters Team colors Purple, Gold, and White Head Coach Brad Childress Owner Zygi Wilf General manager Rob Brzezinski Fight song Skol, Vikings Mascot Ragnar and Vikadontis Rex Local radio Flagship stations: KFAN (1130 AM) Announcers: Paul Allen, Greg Coleman, and...
The Twins and the Vikings then played at the "Met" from 1961 to 1981. The NASL soccer team Minnesota Kicks also played there from 1976 to 1981. See also: 1960 in sports, other events of 1961, 1962 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Marvin Panch won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Ned Jarrett Indianapolis 500 - A.J. Foyt USAC Racing - A.J. Foyt won the driving championship Formula One...
See also: 1980 in sports, other events of 1981, 1982 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: NASCAR Championship - Darrell Waltrip Richard Petty won the Daytona 500 CART Racing - Rick Mears won the season championship May 25 - Indianapolis 500 - Bobby Unser Formula One...
NASL logo North American Soccer League (NASL) was a professional American soccer league that operated from 1968 to 1984. ...
Minnesota Kicks were a professional soccer team that played in Bloomington, Minnesota from 1976 to 1981. ...
See also: 1975 in sports, other events of 1976, 1977 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: February 15David Pearson won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Cale Yarborough Indianapolis 500 - Johnny Rutherford USAC Racing - Gordon Johncock won the season championship Formula One Championship...
The Met was expanded several times through the years. During the summer of 1961, the first two tiers of the triple-deck stand were extended down the first base side, just past the right field corner. This was largely to the benefit of the Vikings. For 1965, a large double-decked grandstand, paid for by the Vikings, was installed in left field. This left the Met with the unique configuration of a double deck in left field, and bleachers behind third base. The big left field stand was originally planned to be capable of sliding toward or away from the gridiron (as Denver's Mile High Stadium later would be), but that part of the project was never realized. Mile High Stadium (known as Bears Stadium until 1968) was a baseball, soccer and football stadium that stood in Denver, Colorado from 1948-2001. ...
In 1965, both the Baseball All-Star Game and the World Series were played at the Met, one of the few times that coincidence has happened since that game was inaugurated in 1933. See also: 1964 in sports, other events of 1965, 1966 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Fred Lorenzen wins the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Ned Jarrett Indianapolis 500 - Jimmy Clark USAC Racing - Mario Andretti Formula One Champion - Jimmy Clark of Great Britain...
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the Midsummer Classic, is an annual exhibition baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by fan vote for the position players and by the manager for pitchers. ...
For other events named World Series, see World Series (disambiguation). ...
See also: 1932 in sports, 1934 in sports and the list of years in sports. Baseball New York Giants defeat Washington Senators in the World Series, 4-1. ...
The Met suffered the fate of some other publicly-owned stadiums, and fell into disrepair during the 1970s, thus accelerating the push for construction of a new stadium, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, which was completed in 1981. The Twins played their last game at the Met on Sept 30, 1981 losing to Kansas City 5-2 on a rainy afternoon. The Vikings played their last game on Dec 20, 1981. Met Stadium was officially abandoned when the Vikings and the Twins moved to the Metrodome in January 1982 and the Kicks had folded after 1981 soccer season. For the next three years, Met Stadium just sat there being unused, decaying and was prone to vandalism. Demolition kickoff for Metropolitan Stadium was started on Jan 28, 1985 and demolition continued for the next four months. After the rubble was cleared, the lot sat vacant for several years, although the nearby Met Center, which had opened in 1967 just north of the Met, continued to provide entertainment for hockey fans. The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, usually simply called The Metrodome, and often nicknamed the Homerdome, is a domed sports stadium in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. ...
September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 92 days remaining. ...
1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
See also: 1981 in sports, other events of 1982, 1983 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: NASCAR Championship - Darrell Waltrip Bobby Allison won the Daytona 500 CART Racing - Rick Mears won the season championship Indianapolis 500 - Gordon Johncock Formula One Champion - Keke...
1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
This article is about the year. ...
The Metropolitan Sports Center (also known as the Met Center) was an indoor arena that formerly stood in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. ...
The Mall of America, which opened in 1992, stands on the site of what is now nostalgically called "the Old Met." A brass plaque in the shape of home plate, embedded in the floor in the northwest corner of The Park at MOA, commemorates the site's days as a sports venue. Near the opposite corner, mounted high on the wall, is a red stadium chair denoting the approximate landing spot of Harmon Killebrew's longest home run, a blast to the upper deck in deep left-center field on June 3, 1967. Mall of America (also MOA, MoA, or the Megamall) is a shopping mall located in the Twin Cities suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota. ...
1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
The Park at MOA, formerly Camp Snoopy, February 2000. ...
Harmon Clayton Killebrew (b. ...
June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ...
1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...
Original dimensions
- Left field line - 330 ft.
- Left center field - 365 ft.
- Center field - 412 ft.
- Right center field - 365 ft.
- Right field line - 330 ft.
Final dimensions - Left field line - 343 ft.
- Left center field - 365 ft.
- Center field - 402 ft.
- Right center field - 370 ft.
- Right field corner curve - 358 ft.
- Right field line - 330 ft.
Quote "There is not a finer facility in all of minor league baseball, and not two better in the Majors." - Calvin Griffith, 1959 Calvin Griffith (1911 - October 20, 1999), born Calvin Robertson in Montreal, Canada, was a Major League Baseball team owner (1955 - 1984). ...
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Griffith Stadium was a sports stadium that stood in Washington, D.C. from 1911 to 1965, at the corner of Georgia Avenue and W Street, NW. An earlier wooden baseball park that stood on the site, National Park, was built in 1891, was destroyed by a fire in March 1911...
1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...
1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...
Major league affiliations American League (1901-present) Central Division (1994-present) West Division (1969-1993) Major league titles World Series titles (3) 1991 • 1987 • 1924 AL Pennants (6) 1991 • 1987 • 1965 • 1933 1925 • 1924 Central Division titles (3) 2004 • 2003 • 2002 West Division titles (4) 1991 • 1987 • 1970 • 1969 Wild...
1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ...
1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, usually simply called The Metrodome, and often nicknamed the Homerdome, is a domed sports stadium in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. ...
1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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