August 30, 2002 - Minnesota Public Radio's William Wilcoxen reports on labor agreement between Major League Baseball and its players union, which allows the Minnesota Twins to continue one of the team's best seasons without interruption. Twins executives joined baseball teams and fans around the country in hailing the agreement.
September 2, 2002 - MPR sports commentator and Star Tribune writer Jay Weiner comments on agreement between the players' union and the team owners, averting a Major League Baseball strike. Weiner sees the revenue sharing plan as a win for Twins owner Carl Pohlad.
September 5, 2002 - Dave St. Peter, vice president of business affairs with the Minnesota Twins, discusses team’s preparation for post season play as regular MLB season nears completion.
September 16, 2002 - Gordon Wittenmyer, who follows the Twins for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, comments on the Minnesota Twins preparing for the post season for the first time since 1991. The Twins clinched the AL Central with a win over Cleveland Indians and a Chicago White Sox loss to the New York Yankees. Wittenmyer says the prior night's locker room celebration went on and on.
September 19, 2002 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Jock Olson, director of golf at Interlachen Country Club, on Solheim Cup being hosted in Edina, Minnesota. Olson breaks down the various golfers attending the event and the course itself.
September 30, 2002 - For the first time in eleven years, the Minnesota Twins head into Major League Baseball's playoffs. The Twins will be underdogs when they open their best-of-five game series with the Western Division champion Oakland A's on the West Coast. Whether they win or lose in the playoffs, 2002 will go down as a landmark season for the Twins.
October 1, 2002 - The Minnesota Twins open the postseason on the road against the Oakland Athletics. One is in the playoffs for the third straight year, the other hasn't tasted baseball's post-season since 1991…but as MPR’s Jon Gordon reports from Oakland, the Twins and the A's have a lot in common.
October 2, 2002 - MPR’s Jon Gordon breaks down Game 1 of American League Division Series game, matching the Minnesota Twins against Oakland A’s. Twins' post-season inexperience was on garish display early in the game, but the team is savoring innings four through nine, during which it battered the vaunted Oakland pitching staff and silenced the A's bats for a 7-5 victory.
October 3, 2002 - MPR’s Jon Gordon provides a summary of Game 2 of the ALDS, in which the Oakland Athletics beat the Minnesota Twins 9-1.
October 3, 2002 - MPR's William Wilcoxen previews playoff baseball’s return to Minnesota as the Minnesota Twins host the Oakland Athletics in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series. The last post-season baseball game at the Metrodome was the Twins' Game 7 victory in the 1991 World Series. This year's team hopes to recapture some of the Twins' postseason Metrodome magic.