Baseball: Fraternal Twins

Even though they boasted some of baseball's most gifted players, the 1968 Minnesota Twins finished a dismal seventh in the American League. Recalls Catcher John Roseboro: "This was not a happy ball club. The guys couldn't get together with each other or the front office. Someone was always grousing about himself or conditions on the team." Suddenly, it is the other American League clubs that are doing the grousing—about Minnesota. With polished thievery on the base paths to complement their power at the plate, the Twins are leading the league's Western Division....

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