On this Date in Minnesota History: August 14

August 14, 1987 – “Twins pitcher Joe Niekro was caught with a fingernail file on the mound in Anaheim Stadium [on Aug. 3] and [was] ejected by umpire Tim Tschida during the 4th inning of Minnesota’s 11-3 win over California. He was suspended [and fined] by AL president Bobby Brown, who [didn’t] buy Niekro’s story ‘that he had been filing his nails on the bench and stuck the file in his back pocket when the inning started.’”

On this evening, Niekro appeared on the David Letterman show “wearing a workman’s belt that [contained] a power sander, nail file, clothes brush, toenail and fingernail clippers, sandpaper and tweezers, scissors, Vaseline, emery boards, and two bottles of Kiwi Scuff Magic.”

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Twins pitcher Joe Niekro being ejected
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