Celebrating Detroit Tigers teams, players and games from 1977 to '89.
Month: October 2008
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Happy 54th birthday to the pride of Bowling Green State University, Kip Young. Young made his major-league debut on July 21, 1978 against the Angels at Tiger Stadium. He took the loss in the 11-inning game, surrendering two earned runs in the 11th. For the rest of the ’78 season Young (wearing number 44) was…
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Today would have been Dwight Lowry‘s 51st birthday. Fans old enough to remember Tigers baseball in the mid-1980s remember the tall gentle giant of a catching prospect. Lowry, an 11th-round pick in 1980, emerged from nowhere in Spring Training 1984 jumping from Double-A Birmingham to the big club as Lance Parrish‘s backup. As Sparky Anderson…
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Rather than bore you with the minutiae of Mike Chris’s entire career, I thought I’d share some of the hyperbolic prose that can only be found in Tigers yearbooks from the 1970s and ’80s: Mike Chris, the slender, youthful left-hander, created a sensation soon after arriving at Tiger Stadium from the Evansville farm club late…
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He’s 39 today. On Dec. 11, 1996, the Twins traded Walbeck (pictured with Carlos Pena and Matt Anderson) to the Tigers for minor leaguer Brent Stentz. Walbeck played for the Tigers in 1997 and wore number 8. In 47 games, he hit .277 with three home runs. Then, on Nov. 20, 1997, the Tigers traded…
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Sad news from Cincinnati today. Former Tigers shortstop Eddie Brinkman passed away at 66. Brinkman joined the Tigers in 1971 as part of the trade that sent Denny McLain to the Washington Senators. Brinkman won the Gold Glove in 1972, the same season he finished in the Top 10 for Most Valuable Player, and was…
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