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Paul Molitor's high school yearbook: a star at Cretin with plenty of foreshadowing

Before he was the Twins manager, he was Priddy Molly -- or perhaps Sparky. You could find him at the hockey rink watching Jimbo.

That was Paul Molitor, circa 1974. We stumbled across a copy of his Cretin High School yearbook in our archives. In many ways, it's exactly what you'd expect from a young version of the St. Paul native who went on to a Hall of Fame career.

He was a four-year letter winner in basketball and baseball and a three-year letterman in soccer. He was named best athlete (on the tongue-in-cheek ballot published in the yearbook, he beat out longtime Minnesota sports broadcaster Marty O'Neill and Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemmon).