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During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the '''[[Minnesota Twins]] and [[Oakland Athletics]]''' shared an intense and heated rivalry.  The Twins would be heckled intensely when they visited the [[McAfee Coliseum|Coliseum]] in [[Oakland, California|Oakland]], and the same would happen in reverse when the A's visited the [[Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome|Metrodome]] in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota|Minneapolis]].  This rivalry came from the two teams being among the premier teams in the American League's [[American League West|Western Division]] during those years.  The rivalry collapsed after the [[1993 in baseball|1993]] season, with the Twins fading into mediocrity for several years and the subsequent divisional realignment that made the two teams' games against each other less important.  However, it was rekindled in the [[2002 American League Division Series]], in which the Twins defeated the A's in front of packed houses in both stadiums, and has continued through [[2006 in baseball|2006]] as the two teams are among Major League Baseball's most successful in the first decade of the new century.

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