The Twins announced Monday a slew of Target Field promotions for the coming season, and included are the usual cheap hot dogs, free bats and discounted ticket opportunities.
Hrbek/Gant bobblehead giveaway Aug. 5
The team will celebrate the famous World Series moment.
March 8, 2011 at 4:40AM
But check out the freebie offered to the first 10,000 fans for the Aug. 5 game: a Kent Hrbek/Ron Gant bobblehead.
The giveaway comes on the first day of what is being billed as "1991 World Series Champs Reunion Weekend," marking the title-winning team's 20th anniversary, when the Twins play host to the rival White Sox Aug. 5-7.
Hrbek, the longtime Twins first baseman, and Atlanta's Gant got tangled up in a play in Game 2 of the World Series at the Metrodome, a play that led to Gant being called out as he retreated back to first. Unsettled all these years is whether Hrbek unfairly overpowered Gant by lifting the baserunner's leg off the bag.
Images of the bobblehead first appeared online in mid-February, with the Twins confirming it would be part of a promotion this season.
Braves director of public relations Beth Marshall said in an e-mail to the Star Tribune that "we begrudgingly gave our approval [to the design] because, although it wasn't a great moment in Braves history, it was for the Twins!"
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