I found the following anecdote on another website, TBob:
I had the chance to hear Ken Burns speak at Messiah College in Pennsylvania a few years ago. He related this anecdote.
Burns said he was sitting in a restaurant, when a man came up to him and asked, "Excuse me. Are you Ken Burns?"
Burns replied that he was.
The man said, "Well, I'm from Minnesota - and I hate you."
Burns replied, "I know - Harmon Killebrew."
For Burns had realized, to his great chagrin, but much too late to make changes, that he had produced a nine-part epic documentary history of baseball, and not once in the whole documentary had the name of the Twins' great slugger been mentioned.
Well, for Twins' fans' sake, I hope he manages to work Harmon's name into the "Tenth Inning" somehow or other.
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