Pronto and Fox Sake already wrote about the 1991 World Series between the Braves and our hometown heroes, the Minnesota Twins. I'm not surprised this topic came up so early in our challenge. It's hard to explain exactly how thrilling the 1987 and 1991 World Series were around here. As Pronto mentioned, these have been the only championships in the last 40ish years in our great state (except for the Lynx! Go Girls!); and in celebration, most Minnesotans named their pets Kirby or Hrbek, Kirbek, or Frankie Sweet Music for the remainder of the 90s.
My post today is not about the BRAVES, however. It's about the CARDINALS, our opponent in the 1987 World Series. I was a fifth grader during this contest. During the run-up to that title, the Twins Fans waved Homer Hankies. We still do this from time to time, when we're not sucking. There was even a catchy pop song to go with the hankies. "My baby waves the Homer Hanky." That kind of thing. Our religion teacher, Sr. Katherine, had us make Homily Hankies to match the real things. We had to make the Twins logo, but also write on quotations from the Bible that mentioned Twins-related items. I think I found something in Genesis about a Dome in the Middle of the Water. You probably know the part.
Anyway, the 1987 World Series against the CARDINALS was especially cool because it pitted my school, Convent of the Visitation in St. Paul, against our sister school, Convent of the Visitation in St. Louis. After the Twins won two in the Metrodome to finish victorious, the St. Louis Visitation sent two senior girls up here to deliver a heartfelt congratulations. They gave a speech in their matching uniforms, and then they gave us all Twinkies.
That was a good moment. Thanks for losing, CARDINALS! I love you for that.
5 comments:
I hate the Cardinals. That's it...
Frank Viola and his sweet music !
I <3 this story. Especially the part about the Twinkies (the Hostess ones).
I love the part about the hankies with the biblical passages. And I love the music. And I always worry that someone's going to get hurt on these victory stampedes, but they never seem to. This was fun to read.
I had tickets to the World Series in '87 and went to all four games at the Dome. It was the loudest place I've ever been in my life, including several heavy metal concerts in high school that made me semi-deaf (for real). The Homily Hankies is the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. I could say several snide remarks about them or about Visitation, which I believe is some kind of finishing school, but I won't.
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