Celebrating Detroit Tigers teams, players and games from 1977 to '89.
Month: September 2008
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Lima Time is 36 today. Perhaps he’s enjoying the free sopapilla he used to recommend as a pitchman for Houston restaurant chain Casa Olé. (As a former Houston resident, I got to see those commercials as often as FSN Detroit viewers see Belle Tire and Cornerstone Schools ads.) For the record, here’s his, uh, record…
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In two-and-a-half years with the Tigers (1991 through mid ’93), Rob Deer, #45 in your scorecard, hit 71 home runs and drove in 167 runs. He also struck out 426 times — that’s 37 percent of his 1,164 at bats. Still, it was fun to watch him swing the bat with all his might every…
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He was rising star for the Tigers in the late 1990s and earlier this decade. He nearly lost his life due to ulcerative colitis and shortly after making a few appearances for the 2001 Tigers was out of baseball. Well, Pettyjohn is back in the bigs with Cincinnati. He made his first appearance with the…
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I’ll admit that while I remember John Pacella‘s cup of coffee with the Tigers in 1986 (11 innings pitched), I didn’t know much about him. But today I learned a lot about him, including: Pacella entered the game in the bottom of the seventh, relieving Rick Baldwin, and got the first hitter, Greg Luzinski, to…
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On April 2, 1990, the Kansas City Royals traded Jerry Don Gleaton to the Detroit Tigers for minor leaguer Greg Everson. Gleaton pitched for the Tigers in 1990 and ’91 as a lefty specialist and based on his workload (as I remember it and according to Baseball-Reference.com), he was one of Sparky’s go-to relievers. He…
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