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I've never been much of a baseball fan. For all that it is America's pastime, I never could figure out why people would play it, much less watch. Baseball is slow, with a lot of nothing happening around a very little bit of something, and not even a time clock ticking down to build anticipation...

Joe Mauer entered Saturday's spring training game against Philadelphia batting .188 in 32 at-bats with just two extra base hits and three RBI. The circle of Twins beat writers, who have been enjoying sunny Florida in March while providing Twins fans with Twitter updates on everything -- including when a player uses a different knot to tie his shoe -- were not alarmed...

Honus Wagner (John Peter Wagner) may have been the greatest all-around baseball player to wear a professional uniform. He was born Feb. 24, 1874, in Pennsylvania and died Dec. 6, 1955, in Pennsylvania. Hall of Fame skipper John McGraw called Wagner, "The nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him...

To build anticipation for the coming season, members of the Minnesota Twins have been making the rounds at Twins Caravan stops for the past two weeks. On Jan. 21, Brian Dozier, Brian Duensing, Jack Morris and Dick Bremer stopped by Harry Brown's Automotive in Faribault, where more than 100 fans waited, to share stories and answer fans' questions...