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It was located at 19th Avenue and Broadway and was torn down in 1963 to build North High School.

īaseball would return to Fargo Moorhead in 1996 when the Fargo Moorhead Redhawks joined the new Northern League in 1996.įrom 1936-1960, the Fargo-Moorhead Twins played their home games at Barnett Field in Fargo, North Dakota. įargo-Moorhead won Northern League Championships in 1915, 1917, 1934, 1953, 1954, 1958, claiming six overall titles. Roger Maris would be selected as the 1953 Northern League Rookie of the Year. The Twins finished with a record of 86-39 (improving from their record of 44-80 in 1952) and bested Duluth to win the Northern League championship. The Twins would host the Northern League All-Star game and defeat the Northern League All-Stars by a score of 8-4. That season, Twins player Frank Gravino would hit 52 home runs.

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In the game, Roger Maris got his first professional baseball hit. A record crowd of 10,123 fans came to Barnett Field. On May 6, 1953, the Fargo-Moorhead Twins defeated Sioux Falls in their Opening Day game by a score of 12-3. Fargo (1902–1905), the Fargo Browns (1908) and Fargo-Moorehead Graingrowers (1914–1917) all played as members of the Northern League and the 1922 Fargo Athletics played in the 1922 Dakota League. The preceding Fargo-Moorhead area teams were the 1897 Red River Valley League members Fargo Red Stockings and Moorhead Barmaids, who were the first area minor league franchises.

The Fargo-Moorhead Twins played in the Northern League from 1933–19–1960. Baseball Hall of Fame members Dizzy Dean (1941) and Lloyd Waner (1947) are Fargo-Moorhead Twins alumni, as is 2x AL Most Valuable Player Roger Maris. Earlier minor league teams had also represented the cities. The Twins won six league championships during their seasons of play. The Fargo-Moorhead Twins were a minor league baseball team that existed from 1933 to 1942 and from 1946 to 1960, representing the neighboring cities of Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota.