Local Daughter Knows Who Jamie Quirk Is Now

Through tears, area 12 year-old Sarah Clowney said she still is coming to grips with the events of Wednesday evening, when the Twins blew a crucial game to the Detroit Tigers in extra innings.

"Dad let me stay up to watch the whole game, and when they lost, he just looked at me and said, "You have your Jamie Quirk Game, sweetie. You're one of us now.'

"What does that even mean?"

The Jamie Quirk Game references the September 27, 1984, contest where Quirk, in his only plate appearance with Cleveland that season, hit a game-winning, 3-run homer to eliminate the Minnesota Twins from the pennant race.

"My dad just got this distant look in his eyes," sniffled Clowney, an honors student at Woodbury Middle School.  "He turned the TV off, said the eff-word about a man named Ron Davis, kissed me goodnight, and went to bed.

"When I got home from school, I told him and Mom that I was so tired and grouchy that I didn't even wanna watch the Angels game. He just hugged me and started crying, but he said they were happy tears."