"One of the stories connected with the lore of Nicollet Park is a two-foot home run hit by Millers shortstop Andy Oyler. On a rainy day, so the story goes, Oyler hit a ball into the mud in front of home plate and circled the bases as the opposing team searched for the ball. As far as I know, this story was first told by Halsey Hall but without any details. Many years later, a book came out titled The 24-Inch Home Run, a compilation of strange but supposedly true baseball tales with Oyler’s home run being the title story. A few more details were provided in this story, such as the St. Paul Saints being the Millers’ opponent in the game. I tried contacting the author of that book a couple of times to find his source for the story and the details, but he never responded. The fact is that Andy Oyler hit only one home run during the years he played for the Millers. It came in an 8-6 loss at Milwaukee on August 2, 1904, and the newspapers made no mention of there being anything special about the home run, something that surely would have been noted had the ball traveled only two feet." - Baseball Researcher / Historian Stew Thornley in On to Nicollet: The Glory and Fame of the Minneapolis Millers (2005)