Media Coverage: CDH Celebrates Mauer - Twins Surprise Him by Retiring No. 7

December 20, 2018

CDH President Frank Miley and the CDH community hosted a celebration of Joe Mauer ’01 with an all-school assembly led by his longtime friend and classmate, Admissions Director Tony Leseman'01 and high school baseball coach, Jim O’Neill ’74.

The CDH celebration turned into quite an event when the Minnesota Twins became involved. The Pohlad family planned to surprise Mauer and announce to the truly “hometown” gathering that the organization was going to retire his No. 7 jersey.

Below are selected links from the dozens of media stories about the Twins honoring of Mauer by retiring No. 7. 

Select Media Coverage

Fans who followed Joe Mauer from the start on hand for emotional jersey-retirement news (Pioneer Press - Twin Cities.com/ December 18, updated December 19, 2018) 

Joe Mauer honored at Cretin-Derham Hall (Catholic Spirit/December 18, 2018)

Mauer ‘kind of in shock’ after Twins announce plans to retire No. 7 (Fox Sports North/December 18. 2018) 

Twins to retire Joe Mauer's number (KSTP/December 18, 2018)

Twins to retire Joe Mauer's number (KARE11/December 18, 2018)

Twins To Retire Joe Mauer’s No. 7 Uniform (WCCO/December 18, 2018)

Twins will retire Joe Mauer’s No. 7 (StarTribune/December 19, 2018)

Joe Mauer’s jersey number will be retired by Twins (Sports Illustrated / December 18, 2018

Wetmore’s 7 thoughts: Joe Mauer surprised with number 7 retirement at Cretin-Derham Hall event (1500 ESPN / December 19, 2018)

If you would like to read the CDH article about the event, please click here.