The Current News About 'Harmon Killebrew'

Twins Great Harmon Killebrew Dies – Killebrew, the big-swinging slugger for the Minnesota Twins and the face of the franchise for so many years, died Tuesday at age 74 after battling esophageal cancer. Talk about this topic (This story continues here)

Harmon Killebrew, at 74, was Twins icon – MINNEAPOLIS – Harmon Killebrew, the affable, big-swinging Hall of Famer whose tape-measure home runs made him the cornerstone of the Minnesota Twins and perhaps the most popular player in the teamand#8217;s 51-year history, died yesterday of esophageal cancer. He was 74. (This story continues here)

Column: Harmon Killebrew was known for his soft side – ST. LOUIS – Former American League catcher Dave Duncan, the Cardinals' pitching coach, talked of how far the late Harmon Killebrew hit home runs and how often Duncan had called the fateful pitch. Indeed, of Killebrew’s 573 home runs, Duncan called 12 of them. (This story continues here)

Harmon Killebrew: A humble hero – Harmon Killebrew, a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Idaho’s most accomplished athlete, died of esophageal cancer Tuesday at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. Reflections on a Boise visit with Killebrew Killebrew’s legend grew home run by home run Photo Gallery: Harmon Killebrew through the years (This story continues here)

Legend of MLB logo: Designer says it wasn’t supposed to be Killebrew – Harmon Killebrew, shown hitting his 37th home run in August 1969 during his MVP season, also connected with many of the recent Twins, even though they never saw him play. (This story continues here)

Harmon Killebrew: an extraordinary slugger of uncommon decency | WorldCSM – His out-of-sight power as a home run hitter stirred the envy of his peers, but never their resentment. His whole life on and off the baseball field was a declaration of his values not only as an athlete but as a man who had adopted a code behavior in which modesty and integrity were not musty chapter headings out of scouting primer but simply revealed who he was. In some ways Harmon Killebrew … (This story continues here)

Designer: MLB logo wasn’t created in Killebrew’s likeness – Harmon Killebrew, so the story went, was such the slugger that the silhouette of his intimidating pose at the plate was the basis for Major League Baseball’s official logo. (This story continues here)

DALY: Too many D.C. icons spent too little time here – Harmon Killebrew slept here. Sorry, but those words keep popping into my head as I ponder Washington’s attachment to the Hall of Fame slugger, who died Tuesday at 74. Killebrew, after all, is in the D.C. Hall of Stars, along with Sammy Baugh, Red Auerbach and the rest. His passing, … (This story continues here)

Legend of MLB logo: Designer says not Killebrew – Harmon Killebrew, so the story went, was such the slugger that the silhouette of his intimidating pose at the plate was the basis for Major League Baseball’s official logo. (This story continues here)

Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew dies at 74 – MINNEAPOLIS — Vern Law does not know if his sympathy card arrived in time. When he heard that his good friend, Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew’s cancer had progressed, he sent a card asking if there w (This story continues here)