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- Article by: Patrick Reusse , Star Tribune
- Updated: May 4, 2007 - 11:32 PM
The Twins will honor their longtime director of minor leagues tonight, mostly for being a tireless helping hand for 37 years.
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George Brophy served as a Twins vice president in charge of both the minor leagues and scouting from Sherry Robertsons death in October 1970 until January 1986.
Brophy hired Jim Rantz as his assistant. Ruth Harvison was the secretary. That was it for the Twins player development department.
Dont forget Lucky, Ruthies dog, Rantz said. It was a mutt Ruthie found abandoned on the beach in Florida. Lucky was in our office every day. Brophy was well-known for his short temper, particularly with agents representing draft choices.
When we first moved into this building [Metrodome], we were down the hall from the accounting office, Rantz said.
Broph was on the phone with an agent, and he was hollering some choice words. A woman from the accounting office came down the hall to see what was going on.
I told her, 'Dont worry. Brophs just talking to his wife.
Rantz laughed in memory of his splendid execution of baseball humor and added: When George hung up, he said, 'I guess were not going to sign that guy.
Calvin Griffith sold the Twins to Carl Pohlad in the summer of 1984. Brophy had health problems and was let go by the new regime late in 1985. Terry Ryan was hired as scouting director, and Rantz was promoted to minor league director in January 1986.
Add it up and Rantz has been in the Twins baseball department for 37 years. Before then, he was a minor league pitcher for five years, a minor league manager for a year and the public relations assistant for five years.
Rantz, 69, will become the 17th inductee in the Twins Hall of Fame before tonights game with Boston. He is being honored for long, patient, humor-filled, highly competent and tireless service.
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