Talking Old Times Twins Baseball with Bob Showers

Our Program on September 24th was a presentation by author Bob Showers. An Iowa native, he freely admitted to coming to the Twin Cities every chance he got to watch the Twins play at the old Met Stadium. He also was a North Stars fan, and went to their games whenever possible, too. He celebrated his love of the North Stars by writing a book about them.                          

He wanted to write about the Twins, also, and selected the period he wanted to cover: from 1961 to 1981 – the time the Twins played at Metropolitan Stadium. His book is titled, “The Twins at the Met”, and is available at Amazon, and at local book stores. It covers the 263 players who were on the Twins team during the time they played in the Met.                                                    

He had a number of inside connections, which helped him do the research. He had access to the Twins and the team records, and he used 1000 pictures from the period when he interviewed the players. He’d show the player a picture, and ask if there were any stories or comments. The stories flowed, and Bob recorded them, transcribed them, sent them to the individual players for approval, and them put them together in book form.  Comment on the quality of his presentation: there was not a sound in the room when he was talking!