Kent Hrbek played his entire 14-year baseball career with the Minnesota Twins.
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22 Facts About Kent Hrbek
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Former Twins pitcher Jim Kaat considered Kent Hrbek to be the best defensive first baseman he had ever seen.
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Kent Hrbek was drafted by his hometown Minnesota Twins in the 17th round of the 1978 Major League Baseball draft and spent the next three seasons working his way up the Twins' organizational ladder where he would hit 47 home runs and rack up 111 runs batted in while hitting.
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In 1979, Kent Hrbek played 24 games for the rookie league Elizabethton Twins in the Appalachian Rookie League before spending the next two seasons playing A ball—first for the Wisconsin Rapids Twins in the Midwest League and then the Visalia Oaks in the California League.
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Kent Hrbek made his major league debut on August 24,1981, at Yankee Stadium, hitting a game-winning home run in the 12th inning off New York reliever and future Twins player George Frazier.
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Kent Hrbek hit a career-best 34 home runs to help the Twins win the AL West.
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Kent Hrbek was instrumental in capturing the World Series Championship, although he hit only.
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Kent Hrbek was involved in a controversial play with Ron Gant in Game 2 of the 1991 Series.
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Since Kent Hrbek had correctly continued applying the tag, Gant was called out upon losing contact with first base.
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Kent Hrbek was one of seven Twins to be part of both the 1987 and 1991 World Series teams.
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Kent Hrbek served as an unofficial consultant for the baseball movie Little Big League.
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Kent Hrbek, who was notorious for losing his stirrups, was the most outspoken member of the MLBPA to revise the uniform code to remove mandatory stirrups and helped to ensure it was written into the new labor agreement following the 1994 player strike.
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Kent Hrbek was one of few players at the time—and even rarer by today's standards—to have played out his entire career with only one team.
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In 2000, the Twins established their own "Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame, " and Kent Hrbek was one of six former Twins inducted into the initial class.
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Kent Hrbek is an avid hunter and fisherman, particularly in his home state of Minnesota.
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Kent Hrbek hosted an outdoor sports program on KMSP-TV called Kent Hrbek Outdoors from 2004 to 2010.
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Kent Hrbek is a perennial pitchman for Twin Cities-area HVAC companies offering Carrier Heating and Air Conditioning equipment.
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Kent Hrbek has a series of baseball fields named after him in his hometown of Bloomington.
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Since Kent Hrbek's father died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 1982, he has worked to increase awareness of the disease.
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Kent Hrbek participates in an annual fundraising event called the "Black Woods Blizzard Tour, " a snowmobile excursion around northern Minnesota which raises money to fight the deadly disease.
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Kent Hrbek was awarded the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award in 1991 for his efforts.
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