Celebrating Detroit Tigers teams, players and games from 1977 to '89.
Month: June 2009
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For a two unfortunate years, I was a resident of the greater Houston metroplex. In fact, it’ll be 10 years this December that I moved there (and it was seven years ago this week that I escaped). My stay in Houston coincided with the April 2000 opening of a new baseball stadium, then Enron Field,…
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Find out here. Did they burn cars in ’68 too, or is Bobby mixing his championship metaphors?
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On this date in 2005, the Tigers traded reliever/troublemaker Ugueth Urbina and infielder Ramon Martinez to the Phillies for infielder Placido Polanco. We all know how that traded worked out. In his five-ish seasons in Detroit, Polanco has been merely a machine: .313 average, .357 OBP, playing in about 140 games a year, hitting .529…
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