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Knute Nelson Memorial Park is a baseball venue located in Alexandria, Minnesota, USA. The park was opened in 1938 and renovated in 1967. It was... named for former Governor of Minnesota and U.S. Senator Knute Nelson. Knute Nelson Memorial Parkis the home of the Alexandria Beetles of the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league. The Beetles' first game was played on June 1, 2001, when former Major League Baseball reliever Goose Gossage threw out the first pitch. The field's layout places Lake Winona directly past the center field fence. The majority of the seating is behind home plate and along the third base line, as residential areas located close to the field prevent further expansion along the first base line.
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Peter Krause is an American film and television actor, director and producer. He is perhaps best known for his lead roles as Nate Fisher on Six Feet... Under, Adam Braverman on Parenthood, and Casey McCall on Sports Night. He is also known for being the series lead of the television series Dirty Sexy Money. Krause was born in Alexandria, Minnesota to a mother who taught second grade and a father who was a high school English teacher. He was raised in Roseville, a suburb of St. Paul. He has two siblings, Michael and Amy. Krause graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College, in St. Peter, Minnesota, with a degree in English literature. He also has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts. In the early 1990s, Krause made a number of guest appearances on television shows such as Seinfeld, Beverly Hills, 90210, and Ellen. Starting in 1996, Krause appeared in a recurring role as Cybill Shepherd's son-in-law Kevin on her sitcom Cybill for four seasons. From 1998 to 2000, Krause also portrayed the character Casey McCall on the ABC network's comedy Sports Night.
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Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11, 1858. Known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", the state's name comes from a Dakota word for "sky-tinted water". Those waters, together with forests, parks, and wilderness areas, offer residents and tourists a variety of outdoor recreational... opportunities. Minnesota is the 12th most extensive and the 21st most populous of the U.S. states. Nearly 60% of its residents live in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area , the center of transportation, business, industry and education and home to an internationally known arts community. The remainder of the state consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture; deciduous forests in the southeast, now cleared, farmed and settled; and the less populated North Woods, used for mining, forestry, and recreation. Minnesota is known for its relatively mixed social and political orientations, and has a high rate of civic participation and voter turnout.
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