Pic of the Week

The Killebrew statue got the swing right
but not the face.

Two red roses adorned the plaque at the base of the statue of Harmon Killebrew on the plaza outside Target Field on Friday, the day Killebrew made it known that his esophageal cancer is terminal, that treatment has been ceased and that he was entering hospice care.

The plaque reads:

Harmon Killebrew

Minnesota Twins

1961-1974

From the book The Power Hitters 

by Donald Honig

"If ever anyone yielded a blunt instrument

at home plate, it was Harmon Killebrew.

There was nothing subtle about the Idaho 

strong boy. It was always his intention to

mash a pitched ball as far as he could."

"Yielded" isn't the right word.  "Wielded" is.  But the sense of the quote — and the basic thrust of the statue — is dead on.