COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — A mostly Minnesota-bred Hall of Fame class will be presented on Sunday on a field near the Clark Sports Center, with luscious swaths of green grass and trees forming a backdrop worthy of a Rockwell painting.
It will be there that Tony Oliva's and Jim Kaat's long wait to enter the Hall of Fame will end. It will be where Bud Fowler, Minnie Minoso and Buck O'Neill receive the recognition they deserved while still alive. It will be where Twins and Red Sox fans will form an unholy alliance as they join forces to applaud David Ortiz's plaque unveiled among the other titans of the sport.
The East Coast muscle here is real, as thousands of Red Sox fans have used their proximity advantage to travel to Cooperstown. Twins fans already have mumbled about lopsided availability of Boston memorabilia over Twins gear.
