I always liked Lary Sorensen as a broadcaster and particularly as a Tigers analyst. To say that he fell on hard times is the understatement of…well, the day.
Read Lynn Henning’s feature on Sorensen’s journey from the bigs to the bottle to the clink.
The one thing that I can’t picture from the article is the McDonald’s at 11 Mile and Gratiot. Is there one there now? I can only picture the White Castle and, cater corner, the Coney place.
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Former Tigers pitcher and major league pitching coach, Vern Ruhle, passed away Saturday night in Houston.
Ruhle, a Coleman, Mich., native, pitched for the Tigers from 1974-77 — i.e., the lean years — posting a 25-29 record. He spent the most of his 13-year career with the Astros. His career year was in 1980: 12-4, 2.37 ERA.
I’ll have to confirm this, but I’m almost certain that my brother’s first big-league autograph came from Ruhle at a youth baseball banquet in the early to mid 1970s.
Bummer.
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