javise: Add this to the pile of Homer Hankies I fully intend to frame one day. And ohgoodchristpleasenottheYankees. Former Star Tribune editor Tim McGuire notes the Twins’ fears about the whole Homer Hanky concept back in 1987: Terrie had conferred with the Twins and had their permission, but when she went back to them just before the playoffs the fellow she had talked to “got really white. He had no idea I was going to pull it off.” That meeting started an attempt by the Twins and Major League baseball to kill the Homer Hanky.  If Terrie has her way nobody will ever let history contend baseball supported it.  Twins officials were convinced  they were going to be the “laughing stock of baseball.” They even threatened that the white hankies were going to distract hitters and force the umpires to cancel the games and the playoff series. She says they angrily charged such a cancellation would be Terrie’s fault. Read full story here…
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javise:

Add this to the pile of Homer Hankies I fully intend to frame one day. And ohgoodchristpleasenottheYankees.

Former Star Tribune editor Tim McGuire notes the Twins’ fears about the whole Homer Hanky concept back in 1987:

Terrie had conferred with the Twins and had their permission, but when she went back to them just before the playoffs the fellow she had talked to “got really white. He had no idea I was going to pull it off.” That meeting started an attempt by the Twins and Major League baseball to kill the Homer Hanky.  If Terrie has her way nobody will ever let history contend baseball supported it.  Twins officials were convinced  they were going to be the “laughing stock of baseball.” They even threatened that the white hankies were going to distract hitters and force the umpires to cancel the games and the playoff series. She says they angrily charged such a cancellation would be Terrie’s fault.

Read full story here…

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