Nicknamed "Killer" for his home run hitting ability, Killebrew became the American League's most feared power hitter of the 1960s, belting 40 homers in a season seven times. In 1965 he helped the Twins reach the World Series where they lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Killebrew led the league in home runs six times, in RBI three times, and was named to eleven All Star teams. Harmon Killebrew hit 573 home runs in his career (seventh best all time, as of 2002) and drove in 1,584 runs.
He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984; the first Minnesota Twin to be so honored. The silhouette of Harmon Killebrew swinging a bat is the official logo of Major League Baseball, which just shows his importance to baseball. This baseball legend was coming to town and Sterling and Earl were sure going to attend this event.
"Killer" was supposedly signing autographs at a nearby hotel for a couple of hours, so that meant it would probably be pretty easy to meet him. When we arrived at the hotel we realized that we were the first ones there, so both of us waited around for some action to take place. Some time had passed when Sterling and Earl noticed that there was a big line forming down the hall for the signing, I guess we should've been paying more attention.
As the crowd waited for him to show up, all of the sudden the hotel manager came to us and asked what all of us were waiting for. It turned out that this was a private event and the paper that it was printed in shouldn't have announced that it was an autograph signing. Not wanting to piss people off the manager notified everyone that since there was such a good turnout that he would set something up for us. We thought this was really nice of them to do this for everyone and awaited the manager's return.
For this being a last minute autograph session the manager sure set it up really well and it was one of the most organized events we've ever attended. The crowd was led into a private room where there were seats awaiting everyone and a table for Killer to sign at. Mr. Harmon Killebrew finally arrived and did a little Q&A and began to sign.
It was funny because Harmon said, "I didn't expect this, so I didn't prepare anything special to say, so let's just do a quick Q&A". The first person in line had so many things to get signed that it was downright rude; almost everyone in line was growing impatient and irritated by the man. Harmon was kind enough to sign almost everything this guy had and we couldn't believe it.
Both of us eventually got to the table and we were glad to meet this gentleman. He signed for both of us and posed for a picture as well. Despite his "Killer" nickname and his powerful style of play, Killebrew was in fact a quiet, kind man who was very nice to every fan that came to see him. Both of us thanked him and were off.