Kent Hrbek

"Strangest thing I ever saw in the Dome was Herbie and Gant in the World Series," says Dan Gladden, who still wears the mud flap of hair that fluttered behind him as he scored the winning run for the Minnesota Twins...

July 5, 1982

Farewell to Falstaff. Twin first baseman Kent Hrbek, 34, announced on Aug. 4 that he would retire after the season. Few players have been more of an everyman than Hrbek, a couch potato who loves to eat and has grown...

Starting with 1987, the twins have finished first, second, fifth, seventh, first, second, fifth. What about this year, Kent Hrbek? "If we finish seventh," says Minnesota's big first baseman, "we're in deep trouble."...