[Mpls] baseball

[James E Jacobsen]

Yes, I agree with Barb Nelson in being positive about a new stadium and about it being in Minneapolis, the city being already set up for it in terms of the parking ramps, hotels etc. and which infrastructure would get dusty with diminished activities.                   I go out accross North Dakota some, and to East Montana and I hear the Twins on the radio a lot.  I know the farmers on the tractors and combines listen to baseball a lot in their air conditioned cabs.  And then on occasion they come into town and want to go to the game.  Same with the elevator boards.           There is some competition in that I have heard of some merchant types going to Billings or Denver instead of Minneapolis to buy their merchandise.             Besides that I remember the Series in 87 and 91 and from my house I could hear the revelers when the last game was won, and witch tells me that a vast and vocal mass of people in the city like the whole thing and so it should be continued.            I will even go to a few games there.          James E Jacobsen // Whittier