This small add-on to Thursday's column on the sports facilities bonanza in Minnesota was lost in the shuffle.

THE THREE most-astounding developments in Twin Cities sports facilities in recent years (in my opinion):

* Most of us thought Glen Mason was hallucinating when he started talking about an on-campus football stadium for the Gophers in the early 2000s. It happened in 2009. Sadly for Mason, the visionary, he had been fired three seasons earlier.

* Mike Veeck came off as loonier than Mason when he started talking up his plan for a ballpark/art gallery in St. Paul's Lowertown for a tired independent league baseball team. He got it with CHS Field in 2015, and the Saints are tired no longer.

*The $52 million Anderson Athletic and Recreation Complex, all 180,000-square feet of it, opened at the University of St. Thomas in 2010. I could not believe my lyin' eyes, that this was a home for Division III athletics.

There were also a couple of notes on under-the-radar aspects of Minnesota's sports facilities craze.

From Tom Redman, director of parks and recreation in Chaska: "We are planning on opening our $20 million curling, event center and restaurant (Crooked Pint) the first week of December in Firemen's Park in downtown Chaska. The six-sheet curling component being built by the city of Chaska is like nothing else in the Midwest."

From Bill Nelson, the amateur baseball man long associated with Dundas: "It is not only the pros at which money is tossed. Amateur baseball has been spending mind-boggling dollars, too. Every town that has the State Tournament over the last few years has spent at least $100,000 to improve their ballpark. This year, Cold Spring made big improvements with the help of a substantial donation from Eric Decker. And Watkins added to its park in a big way, as you saw.

"Dassel-Cokato and Hutchinson are hosting next year and both are putting in new additions from grandstands to decks. To top it off, New Prague is completely redoing its park for the 2018 tournament to the tune of almost $1 million.

"That used to be a lot of money."