Minneapolis Millers - Definition and Overview

The Minneapolis Millers were a professional minor league baseball team that played in Minneapolis, Minnesota until 1960. The team was a member of the American Association.

Ted Williams, Willie Mays and Carl Yastrzemski were among some future major leaguers who played for the Millers. The Millers won nine pennants in the Association from 1902 to 1960. They played their home games at Nicollet Park until 1955. In 1956 they moved into Metropolitan Stadium until 1960. They had a heated crosstown rivalry with the St. Paul Saints.

The team folded after the 1960 season with the arrival of the Minnesota Twins in 1961. Both the Millers and the Saints were resurrected in the mid-1990s; the Millers folded after one season (1994) but the Saints survive to the present despite sharing their market with the major league Twins.

Hockey

They are also various incarnations of minor league hockey teams spanning from 1925-1963, including a 1963 Turner Cup win in the International Hockey League.