This past Sunday, the Twins held their annual spring bowling tournament called “Twins And Pins,” a charity event benefiting Habitat For Humanity. Mauer brought his own bowling ball to spring training. He planned on carrying it on the plane, but it didn’t get through security because the X-ray equipment couldn’t penetrate the ball, so he had to check it into baggage. “Twins And Pins” was held in a dingy little bowling alley behind a KFC in Fort Myers. It wasn’t mandatory for Twins players to go to the event, but, of course, Mauer went. And, of course, he is a good bowler.

“You should have seen him, the perfect spin, in the pocket, the pins just exploded when the ball hit them,” said the Twins’ new second baseman Orlando Hudson. “He’s a great bowler.”

Typically for Mauer, he shrugged it off. It was no big deal that he rolled a 205.

The big deal is how he handled the event.

“Here he is, Joe Mauer, the face of the franchise,” said Twins manager Ron Gardenhire. “He couldn’t have been nicer. He had a smile on his face the whole night. And after he rolls another strike, he is high-fiving people that he just met that night at a bowling alley.”

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