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The 1991 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1991 season. The 88th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Minnesota Twins (95–67) and the National League (NL) champion Atlanta Braves (94–68). The Twins defeated the Braves four games ...
The 1991 Minnesota Twins season was the 31st season for the Minnesota Twins franchise in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, their 10th season at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome and the 91st overall in the American League. They won the World Series, the second time the Twins had won the World Series since moving to Minnesota in 1961. At the beginning of ...
This was the first of five World Series appearances for the Braves during the 1990s, they would return to the World Series the following year, only to lose to the Toronto Blue Jays in six games. They also appeared in the World Series in 1995 (defeated the Indians 4–2), 1996 (lost to the Yankees 4–2), and 1999 (lost to the Yankees 4–0).
The 1991 Stanley Cup Final started on May 15, and the 1992 Final Four came to a conclusion on April 6. A Minnesota team or venue was involved in those two major events and three more in between ...
The Twins finally broke an 18-game postseason losing streak, a record for North American professional sports, last year by sweeping Toronto in the Wild Card Series. That was their first series win ...
Twins' pitcher and Minnesota native Jack Morris was the star of the series in 1991, going 2–0 in his three starts with a 1.17 ERA. [57] 1991 also marked the first time that any team that finished in last place in their division would advance to the World Series the following season; both the Twins and the Braves did this in 1991. [58]
The Minnesota Twins will be changing hands, as the Pohlad family, which has owned the organization since 1984, has decided to sell the team. ... Minnesota won the World Series in 1987 and 1991 and ...
The 1991 Major League Baseball season saw the Minnesota Twins defeat the Atlanta Braves for the World Series title, in a series where every game was won by the home team. The Twins and Braves became the first two teams in MLB history to win the pennant after finishing last the previous season.