FOR "LISTEN!

PLEASE!"

AND J.D.

STEELE.

TIME HAS NEARLY ESCAPED US, BUT WE DO HAVE JUST ABOUT A MINUTE LEFT TO ASK YOU ONE OF OUR PATENTED MYSTERY PERSON QUESTIONS.

PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORTED FOR SPRING TRAINING THIS WEEK.

THERE'S A NICE SHOT OF HAMMOND FIELD, THE MINNESOTA TWINS SPRING TRAINING HOME.

IT'S A TIME OF ETERNAL HOPE FOR BASEBALL FANS, BEFORE THE FIRST PITCH OF THE SEASON HAS BEEN THROWN OUT AND DREAMS OF A CHAMPIONSHIP ARE DASHED.

OUR MYSTERY PERSON IS ASSOCIATED WITH A DECADE OF UPS AND DOWNS FOR OUR MINNESOTA TWINS THE 1980S.

HE OR SHE WAS PART OF THE ORGANIZATION DURING THE GLORIOUS 1987 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON.

BUT THE EVENT WE ARE ASKING ABOUT HAPPENED IN 1982, WHEN THE TWINS FINISHED DEAD LAST IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE WEST.

OUR MYSTERY PERSON ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING THAT SEASON THAT HAD NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE AND HAS NEVER HAPPENED SINCE.

HERE'S A HINT FOR YOU: A FUTURE MEMBER OF THE TWINS ORGANIZATION WAS INVOLVED IN THIS HISTORIC EVENT.

OUR QUESTION FOR YOU: IT'S A TWO-PARTER, SO LISTEN CLOSELY.

WHO IS OUR MYSTERY PERSON, AND WHAT ONE-TIME HISTORIC FEAT DID THEY ACCOMPLISH IN THE SUMMER OF 1982?

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU WHETHER YOU ARE CALLING FROM RADKE LAKE, KIRBY LAKE, OR HARMON PARK IN INVER GROVE HEIGHTS.

651-229-1430 IS THE NUMBER TO CALL WITH ALL YOUR GUESSES, RIGHT OR WRONG.

YOU CAN ALSO DROP US A NOTE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO PICK UP YOUR PHONE.

ALMANAC@TPT.ORG IS OUR ELECTRONIC INBOX ADDRESS.

FOR SHOW-ENDING MUSIC THIS WEEK, PRODUCERS DUG INTO THE ARCHIVES AND FOUND THIS 2014 VALENTINE'S DAY PERFORMANCE BY RED HOUSE RECORD ARTIST JOHN GORKA.

TAKE A LISTEN.

AND BE CAREFUL.

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