BIDDING PERIOD OPENS FOR POTENTIAL TWINS INVESTORS

          Twins officials announced Friday "that they have opened
     the 30-day period during which they are to seek new
     investors interested in buying the club from owner Carl
     Pohlad," according to David Hanners of the ST. PAUL PIONEER
     PRESS.  The bidding period is part of a new two-year
     Metrodome lease agreement that will keep the Twins in MN
     through the 2000 season and pay them an extra $1M a year
     (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 8/15).  In Minneapolis, John Millea
     reported that Pohlad said that people interested in
     investing in the club must do so by September 14.  He has
     not said that he is willing to sell 100% of the team.  Among
     those mentioned as prospective investors are Timberwolves
     Owner Glen Taylor and a group that includes Clark Griffith
     and Mike Veeck (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 8/15).  Pohlad's
     financial adviser, Bob Starkey: "We are not ruling out
     anything, including somebody who wants to buy the team" (Sid
     Hartman, Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 8/15).