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AL: Minnesota - Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
« on: July 27, 2005, 03:53:04 pm »
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Opened: April 3, 1982
Style: Dome
Surface: FieldTurf
Capacity: 55,883
Dimensions: LF-343 ft LCF-385 ft CF-408 ft RCF-367 ft RF-327 ft

Tidbits:

- On May 4, 1984, Dave Kingman hit a ball that went through the fabric roof.  He was credited with a ground-rule double.
The rules of distinction were thrown out with the baseball cap.  It does not lend itself to protocol.  It is found today on youth in homes, classrooms, even in fine restaurants.  Regardless of its other consequences, this is a breach against civility.  A civilized man should avoid this mania.