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Thanks for your interest – and here’s a look at how I came to be a T-Mobile All Star FanFest Volunteer<\/p>\n
June 1 \u2013 Informational Meeting (Target Field)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n My All Star week volunteer experience began long before the All Star game itself \u2013 signing up in late May \u00a0(on-line at MLB.com) as a willing volunteer for at least one of the many All Star Game-related events.<\/p>\n All the potential volunteers received emails indicating we should attend one of two initial informational sessions (at Target Field) \u2013 Sunday, June 1 at 3:00 p.m. or Monday June 2 at 5:00 p.m.\u00a0 I selected the Sunday session and arrived at Target field right at 2:15 p.m. (when Gate 6 opened). \u00a0Despite arriving 45 minutes early and traveling more than 50 miles, I was neither the earliest to arrive, nor the volunteer from farthest away. I talked with potential volunteers from as far away as northern Iowa and others who had arrived more than 90 minutes early.\u00a0 The crowd, which would eventually grow to more than 500, was decked out in plenty of Twins\u2019 garb.\u00a0 An uninformed observer might have concluded that the Twins were at home. (They were playing the Yankees in New York.)<\/p>\n The Twins provided plenty of excitement while waited for the official programming to start. \u00a0Trailing 2-1 in the top of the ninth, the Twins rallied for six runs (five scoring after two outs) and a 7-2 win.\u00a0 There was, as expected, plenty of cheering, clapping and high-fiving for a victory that occurred 1,200 miles away \u2013 and lots of grins as Twins announcer Roy Smalley, Jr. referred to the ninth- inning action as \u201can old-fashioned ambush.\u201d<\/p>\n