1961 Minnesota Twins Program, That Game and 1961 Topps Team Set
For either my birfday, or Valentines Day, or a late X-Mess present, I don’t remember, Laura got me a package of three Minnesota Twins programs. One from each of the years 1961, 1962 and 1964. For now, we’ll start with 1961, the Twins first season in Minnesota. Not the team yearbooks for those years (I’d still like to get copies of those), these are the programs issued at the ballpark, for the fans to score that day’s game. I don’t see many people keeping score anymore, but in the 1960’s it was still a very popular thing to do. I also don’t know how many times a season that new programs were issued in the early 1960’s (these days it’s monthly), so I’m needing more clues to narrow the time of this issue down. Pregame Warmups Upon opening her gift and seeing these old programs, my first thought after: “Wow, that is really cool!” was “I know exactly what I want to write about this...” Hopefully, I can track down the exact game this program was sold at. If you were a collector looking fo