Target Field is a beautiful home for Twins baseball -- widely regarded as one of the best game experiences in the league -- but the Metrodome, despite its flaws, made for a unique venue that defined the formative years of many a Twins fan around the Upper Midwest. Dome-field advantage m...
Target Fieldopened in April 2010. The Minnesota Twins played their last game at the Metrodome, an American League Division Series game against the New York Yankees on October 11, 2009. The Metrodome remained the home to the Minnesota Vikings until after the 2013 NFL season. It was demolished...
and Memorial Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus. Since 1982, the Metrodome has been the home to the National Football League’s (NFL) Minnesota Vikings. The stadium was also the home of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) Minnesota Twins from 1982 to...
The weather inside the Metrodome always made for fantastic conditions in which to play ball. Well, almost always. Amid a brutal heat wave around Minnesota with dangerous heat indexes across the state, an equipment failure at the Hennepin County Energy Center shut off the air conditioning at seve...
In 1973, after high school, Ken was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in tenth round, but decided to attend the University of Idaho on a football and baseball scholarship. Schrom dreamed of becoming an NFL quarterback. In fact his favorite player of all time is Bart Starr. “I got in ...
U.S. Bank Stadium opened along the Green Line in 2016 as the new venue for Minnesota Vikings’ NFL games; Target Field, the home park of MLB’s Minnesota Twins since 2010, is located near the route; and a minor league baseball park for the St. Paul Saints opened in 2015 on...
But that's just a coincidence. The seats -- 170 in Frank Wade Field for baseball, and another 70 at the softball field -- came all the way from Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they were once part of the Metrodome, the now-demolished former home of the Minnesota Vikings and Twins. ...
Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis certainly earned its place in sports history. The stadium is the only facility to have hosted a Super Bowl (1992), two World Series (1987, 1991), a Major League Baseball All-Star game (1985) and two Division I collegiate basketball Final Four playoffs (...