How far does Twins Territory extend? (Or, Where are you from?)

Lifelong CA resident. I first heard about the Twins in 2000, when I was just starting to get into baseball. I was looking through a program while at a River Cats game (they’re our AAA team, affiliate to the A’s), and I saw the name “Minnesota Twins” on a list of minor and major league teams. The name stuck with me, and as the months went by after that I just got more and more curious. I learned about their history, their great players, the cool logos and uniforms, the stadium, etc. By my birthday, I had christened myself a fan and even sent Kirby Puckett a letter, which he responded to with an autograph. And my fanhood has only grown since then, and will continue to grow in the years to come! Btw, this is a great idea for a poll. I want to see how far the fanbase’s global reach really is.

http://www.commoncensus.org/sports_map.php?sport=2

I grew up in Minneapolis, and my earliest memories were Rod Carew as rookie of the year. Jim Kaat, Tony Oliva, Harmon, and Billy Martin managing…(that was interesting looking back). Anyway, you can take the boy out of Minnesota, but you can’t take Minnesota out of the boy.

I love that, at least right now, “Pacific Coast” has more people in it than either of the Minnesota options.

But I was born and raised in the Twin Cities… there’s a hotdish poster in my kitchen.

Also, I actually know someone stationed in Antarctica right now. She’s not a Twins fan, otherwise I’d make her answer the poll.

Twins fan born into a family of Twins fans, passing on the love of the game to the next generation.

got plenty of family all over the place that are huge Twins fans (I’m of course the only one of my cousin who doesn’t have Twins fans for parents though…) Let’s see, a ton in Alaska, a few in Hawaii, some in Cali, one in Arizona, and some out in New York. And then some out in South Korea (technically my cousin’s inlaws but while they were visiting we got them hooked on baseball!) and one in Italy. the rest of us are in MN I think…

South of Mankato about 40 minutes.

I’m originally from ND (Go Bison!), but I voted Caribbean because I like to imagine I’m there this time of year like in those Corona commercials.

But I’m still technically a MN resident so I voted metro area.

Germany should be an option. Max Kepler and all.

Wish I was closer to Hammond Stadium in Ft. Myers

Born in Duluth
First Twins memory – 1963
First game attended – 1965

The eastern part of the state (as well as eastern ND) is pretty strongly Twins Territory – we get the Winter Caravan here and everything.

I grew up in the northwestern part of the state, which is less well-defined, at least partially because while the Twins were still by far the closest team (Denver’s only a couple hours farther away, but the Rockies didn’t start until I was 13), it was far enough away that it was rare to get to a game, and there was no network to watch all the games on. Braves and Cubs got a lot of fans thanks to their superstations carrying lots of games, and the Braves got a TON of bandwagon fans in the early 90s (most of them also became Dallas Cowboys fans – these are TERRIBLE PEOPLE). It was probably less than 50% Twins fans, and the people who were most into baseball usually followed the Cubs.

Interesting.

I moved back to the TC in 1992 when we had a kid. I lived in the Mission District in SF during the World Series era, and mostly watched Kirby Puckett’s back from the Oakland Coliseum center field bleachers. (He would not turn around no matter how much we tried to convince him he was our idol.) Interesting fan post, thanks.

so get my sports roots from there but live in central California on the coast now, might be moving back after my last semester of college is finished in a few months though.

Much prefer the weather.

Just north of Sioux Falls.

but I’m back in Minneapolis and living here for the first time as an adult.

But I spent my first 22 years in Minneapolis.

I heart TT…

Mostly raised in the Milwaukee area though. I didn’t follow the Twins until Internet streaming made it easy to watch games.

by way of the SE Metro.

Go Twins, Go ’Cats! Wearing my Northwestern purple and my Twins hat as we speak.

I was born in Des Moines, mostly grew up in Rochester, New York area, finished high school in Florida, attended University of Florida (undergrad & law school), living in Melbourne, Florida area since 1983.

As you can see, I’m a real traveler.