Minnesota Twins

Target Field will open on April 12, 2010 as the Minnesota Twins host the Boston Red Sox.  Target Field will be the only new major league ballpark that will open this year.  Ed, Farley and Mark begin the podcast by talking about Target Field.  Ed then interviews Michael Wekesser, lead designer for the Target Field project.  Mike’s employer is the world renown sports architectural firm, Populous.

The Wise Guys then battle it out over baseball history and then Baseball Bob appears from the shadows to give us the baseball trivia question of the podcast.  What was the name of the franchise that moved to Baltimore in 1954?

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Baseball PhD meets Target Field

Like anything great, we had to travel to Kansas City to learn about Target Field.  Target Field opens on April 12, 2010 in Minneapolis.  It will be the new home of the Minnesota Twins.

Target Field was designed at the world headquarters of Populous.  In the video below, Ed Kasputis interviews Michael Wekesser, lead designer for the project.

To learn about the 2012 Olympic Stadium that is being designed by Populous, click here.