for the 1965 All-Star Game which was played in his home ball park, Metropolitan Stadium. He was one of six Twins to appear in the 1965 mid-season classic (with Versalles, Killebrew, Jimmie Hall, Mudcat Grant, and Tony Oliva). Battey was an integral member of the Twins team that went on to clinch the American League pennant, hitting for a .297 batting average and finished in tenth place in voting for the American League Most Valuable Player Award (with teammate Versalles winning and six Twins finishing in the top 15). He started every game in the 1965 World Series but only hit for a .120 average with 2 RBIs and only one extra base hit as the Twins lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a seven-game series. In 1966, Battey hit .255 with 4 home runs and 31 RBIs while playing in 115 games, his lowest total since his backup days in Chicago. Battey was selected for his fourth and last All-Star game, coming into the game in the bottom of the sixth inning for starter, Tiger catcher Bill Freehan. The 1967 season was Battey's last as he battled a thyroid condition that caused him to gain weight. He appeared in only 48 games and hit for just a .165 average. The Twins' three catchers that season, Battey, Jerry Zimmerman, and Russ Nixon, combined to only hit .176 and the Twins went 2-5 in late September and lost the pennant to the Red Sox in the last game of the season. Career statistics In a 13-year major league career, Battey played in 1,141 games, accumulating 969 hits in 3,586 at bats for a .270 career batting average along with 104 home runs and 449 RBIs. He led the American League four times in assists and putouts, three times in baserunners caught stealing and twice in caught stealing percentage, with a career fielding percentage of .990. A four-time All-Star, Battey won three Gold Glove Awards. Over his career, he threw out 43.44% of the base runners who tried to steal a base on him, 15th on the all-time list. In , the reigning American League stolen base champion, Luis Aparicio, rated Battey as the toughest catcher on which to attempt a stolen base. Richard Kendall of the Society for American Baseball Research devised an unscientific study that ranked Battey as the seventh most dominating fielding catcher in major league history. Battey