The Minnesota North Stars compete at Metropolitan Sports Center, 1969. The Minnesota North Stars brought the NHL to Minnesota in 1967.

View of a Minnesota Twins game from the upper deck of Metropolitan Stadium, early 1960s. Photograph by Robert Rydeen.

The Lakers, the NBA's first dynasty, shown in 1950.

Roy Campanella, June 13, 1948. In that year, Campanella became the first African American to play in the American Association when he played for the St. Paul Saints. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press.

Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams, May 11, 1938. Williams played for the Minneapolis Millers in that year.

A curling game, 1937. Curling was introduced to Minnesota in the 1850s. Shown is action ca. 1935.

Powderhorn Park, shown ca. 1935, was home to many of the top speedskaters in the US between 1930 and 1950.

Patty Berg, of Minneapolis, ca. 1935. Berg was one of the founding members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) and is in the World Golf Hall of Fame.

A Minnesota angler. Photograph by Kenneth Melvin Wright, ca. 1926.

Ralph Samuelson, 1925. Samuelson, an eighteen-year-old from Lake City, Minnesota, is credited with inventing water skiing on Lake Pepin in 1922.