 Home plate marker for Metropolitan Stadium, located within Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America. |
 Also preserved: the outfield seat where a prodigious Harmon Killebrew home run landed. |
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Home plate marker for Metropolitan Stadium, located within Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America. |
Also preserved: the outfield seat where a prodigious Harmon Killebrew home run landed. |
Metropolitan Stadium opened in 1956 to host the Minneapolis Millers of the American Association. The Twin Cities were angling to get a major league team; they thought they had the New York Giants, but they wound up moving to San Francisco, joining the Dodgers on the West Coast. When the American League expanded in 1961, the Washington Senators moved from Griffith Stadium to Bloomington and an expansion franchise took up residence in the nation’s capital for eleven seasons.
The ballpark was only used for pro ball for 26 years, with the Twins moving to the Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis in 1982. Ten years later, developer Triple Five opened the Mall of America on the site. Four levels of shops, over 500 stores in all, ring an inner concourse of North America’s largest mall. While that inner concourse has been repurposed several times, the location of home plate at Met Stadium has been preserved, along with a seat over 500 feet away into which Harmon Killebrew deposited a home run in the 1960s.
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