Celebrating Detroit Tigers teams, players and games from 1977 to '89.
Month: August 2010
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Is it just me or were there a lot of Aug. 31 trades made back in the day? Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s it seemed that Oakland was always adding a big name at the deadline — Willie McGee, Ruben Sierra, Harold Baines. Just asking. The last time the Tigers made any…
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Here’s the final clip from the Tigers clubhouse after clinching the 1968 pennant. This one features George Kell interviewing Tigers owner John Fetzer. Here’s clip one and here’s clip two.
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Here’s the second installment, starting with George Kell’s interview with Al Kaline, who scored the pennant-winning run. Ten years later, Kell and Kaline would be paired up in the Tigers’ TV booth. Later, Kell and sidekick Larry Osterman talk to Dick Tracewski and Jim Price. Here’s part one.
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In honor of George Kell’s birthday, here’s some terrific video from the Tigers’ clubhouse after they clinched the American League pennant in 1968. This is the first of three installments — the others to follow.
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A couple days late, but here’s what Dan Le Batard and Bob Ryan have to say on ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption about Sunday’s set-to between Armando Galarraga and Alex Avila. http://video-insider.espn.go.com/pvs/build/core/assets/espneplayer.swf
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Now that’s how you go on the disabled list. After so many trips to the DL because of a pulled this or a strained that, Carlos Guillen was shelved today thanks to an honest-to-goodness, bone-jarring collision at second base Monday night. The Tigers placed Guillen on the 15-day disabled list because he has a deep…
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It’s too late to impact this season but the Tigers taking two of three from the White Sox in Chicago — no matter the circumstances — always feels great. Particularly enjoyable, of course, was how the Tigers won, beating J.J. Putz in the ninth on Saturday and eighth on Sunday. The only thing that could…
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This abbreviated edition of the Walewanders comes to you from Oceanside, California, where the marine layer is burning off and another weather-perfect day is under way: When I saw that Casey Coleman was pitching for the Cubs, my first instinct was to see if he was related to former Tigers righty Joe Coleman. Of course,…
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