My Vintage Minneapolis Millers & St. Paul Saints Collection

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Minneapolis Millers vs. St. Paul Saints Program & Ticket Stub from Sept. 8, 1960 - Final game ever played between Millers & Saints featuring Saints pitcher Jim Golden's 20th Win of the season becoming the last 20-Game Winner in the History of the American Association!

I recently acquired what I thought was an ordinary final-year Millers program & ticket from 1960 with Yaz in the line-up for Minneapolis. Come to my surprise this program was dated and scored from the second game of a double-header played on Sept. 8, 1960, between Minneapolis and St. Paul making this program the final game ever played between the two ball clubs marking the end of a fierce 59 year battle and the start of a new baseball beginnings in the State of Minnesota.

After spending the better part of the 1890s hosting entries in the Western League, the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul became part of the newly formed American Association when the league organized in Chicago in November 1901. A tradition of inter-city rivalry that extended from the days of the old Northwestern League in the 1880s, their American Association battles would become legendary over a period of six decades. The two clubs often played double-headers on holidays, playing one game in each city. The double-header rivalry became famously known as the "Streetcar Double-Headers". These teams and their fans put what was then an isolated Midwestern locale securely onto the baseball map until the Millers and Saints played their final games in 1960, departing the scene to make way for the Minnesota Twins."

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The Ballpark Digest recognized the Saints, and the City of Baseball Museum in particular, in their year-end awards as baseball’s Best $1-Million Ballpark Improvement. More than 40,000 visitors walked through the museum during the season. Quite the honor for St. Paul and the entire Saints organization!

https://ballparkdigest.com/2019/09/1...seball-museum/

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2019 Eddie Medina Road St. Paul Saints No-Hitter Jersey & Chesny Young Home St. Paul Saints GM 3 Championship Title Clinching Go-Ahead Grand Slam Homerun Jersey

Eddie Medina threw the sixth no-hitter in American Association history and the second no-hitter in St. Paul Saints history on May 31, 2019, striking out 10 batters in a 5-0 road victory over the Cleburne (Texas) Railroaders. The other no-hitter was pitched by Joe Miller on August 25, 1996 at Midway Stadium. This uniform was worn by Medina during the historic achievement. Eddie finished the 2019 season with a team leading 10-3 record, tossing a No-Hitter and named the Starting Pitcher for the AA All-Star Game.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsx7eV1tTCY

Chesny Young's Grand Slam Homerun in Game 3 of the American Association Championship ended a 15-year championship drought, sweeping their series with the Sioux City Explorers. Young was named the American Association Championship series MVP, finishing the series with seven RBI. Chesny wore this uniform to hit the monumental homerun earlier this month. Young played in the Chicago Cubs minor league organization ending in AAA for the Iowa Cubs in 2018, before joining the Saints in 2019.

Link: https://twitter.com/StPaulSaints/sta...61055347486722

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1921-30 Joe Riggert Hillerich & Bradsby Game Used Bat

One of the most popular Saints players during his 12 seasons (1912-13, 1915-24) in St. Paul, Joe Riggert accumulated 1,639 hits with the Saints. Riggert was a member of the 1924 Saints Little World Series Championship team. In 2003, baseball writer Bill James named Riggert as the best minor league baseball player of the 1910s.

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St. Paul Saints Cardboard Countertop Schedule Display, ca. 1940

I recently purchased this extremely rare and unique silk-screened countertop schedule sign. The piece was likely never circulated as there was an error at the bottom with the city “Lexington, Kentucky”. Other known examples have the name of the team’s ballpark printed underneath the team name. The St. Paul Saints played their games at Lexington Park. It’s likely that something was lost in translation during printing and new signs were distributed. I am particularly excited about adding this sign as it’s only the second vintage advertising piece that I have seen St. Paul Saints related. The other was a barnstorming broadside c. 1926 promoting a game between Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees vs. St. Paul. That sold for hefty $12k!

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1932 Junior World Series Game 1 Full Ticket – Minneapolis Millers vs. Newark Bears.
Historic ticket from the first game of the first Junior World Series (it was called the Little World Series before 1932.)

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1949 St. Paul Saints American Association Championship Trophy
In his final season in St. Paul, Walter Alston managed the 1949 club to American Association pennant with a record of 93-60. This is now the third Saints trophy in my collection.