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Published May 17, 2011, 12:00 AM

PHOTO GALLERY: Harmon Killebrew

Twins great died May 17, 2011.


This May 19, 1964 file photo shows Minnesota Twins' Harmon Killebrew at bat in game against the Yankees at New York's Yankee Stadium. Killebrew, the Twins slugger known for his tape-measure home runs, died Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 74. (AP Photo/Marty Lederlander, File)




  • This May 19, 1964 file photo shows Minnesota Twins' Harmon Killebrew at bat in game against the Yankees at New York's Yankee Stadium. Killebrew, the Twins slugger known for his tape-measure home runs, died Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 74. (AP Photo/Marty Lederlander, File)<br /><br /><br /><br />
  • Offerings were left beside the name plate of the statue of Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame baseball player Harmon Killebrew, Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at Target Field plaza in Minneapolis. Killebrew died Tuesday at his Arizona home. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
  • This July 2, 1984, file photo shows President Ronald Reagan, right, holding an autographed baseball as he talks with soon to be Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, formerly of the Minnesota Twins, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. Killebrew, along with other old timer baseball players, were in Washington for the Old Timers Baseball Classic. Killebrew died Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 74. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz)
  • This Sept. 12, 1964, file photo shows Minnesota Twins' Harmon Killebrew posing with 9-year-old Johnny Guiney, at New Yorks Yankee Stadium. Killebrew had visited Guiney in May after he was hospitalized with critical burns suffered when his altar boy robes caught fire. Johnny asked his idol to hit a homer, and the leading home run hitter in the major leagues responded with a first inning, two-run blast. Killebrew, the Twins slugger known for his tape-measure home runs, died Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 74. (AP Photo/Harry Harris, File)
  • A photo of former Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame baseball player Harmon Killebrew was placed at home plate before being covered by a Target Field grounds crew worker Tuesday, May 17, 2011, in Minneapolis, where it will remain the remainder of the Twins' baseball season. Killebrew died Tuesday at his Arizona home of cancer. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
  • This May 13, 2011, file photo shows roses on the plaque by the statue of Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame baseball player Harmon Killebrew on Target Field plaza, in Minneapolis. Killebrew, the Twins slugger known for his tape-measure home runs, died Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 74. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
  • This July 13, 1971, file photo shows American League All Stars, from left, Baltimore Orioles' Frank Robinson, Minnesota Twins' Harmon Killebrew and Oakland Athletic's Reggie Jackson, in the clubhouse after defeating the National League 6-4, in Detroit. Killebrew, the Twins slugger known for his tape-measure home runs, died Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 74.(AP Photo/File)
  • This April 3, 2010, file photo shows former Minnesota Twins baseball player Harmon Killebrew posing with a statue of him unveiled near Target Field in Minneapolis. Killebrew, the Twins slugger known for his tape-measure home runs, died Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 74. (AP Photo/Andy King, File)