Celebrating Detroit Tigers teams, players and games from 1977 to '89.
Month: June 2011
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There’s a lot to talk about this weekend with the Tigers taking on Kirk Gibson and Alan Trammell‘s smoke-and-mirror Diamondbacks. We’ll get to that. Today I’d like to honor Peter Falk who died this afternoon at 83. Here’s one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies, The In-Laws — the original 1979…
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This morning I received my Baseball Hall of Fame newsletter, Inside Pitch, and the lead story recapped yesterday’s Hall of Fame Classic in Cooperstown. Before the game they held a parade that featured Hall of Famers Jim Rice, Ozzie Smith, Goose Gossage, Phil Niekro, Andre Dawson and Dick Williams. Scanning through the article I could’ve sworn…
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Tonight Alex Avila is the Tigers’ starting third baseman in the opener of a three-game series in Denver against the Rockies. Avila’s never played third in the majors but he’s not the first Tigers player to be pressed into action there. Did you know that Al Kaline appeared in two games at third during his career? In 1961, he…
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Glenn Wilson Born: December 22, 1958 in Baytown, Texas Bats: Right Throws: Right Height: 6′ 1″ Weight: 190 lbs. Acquired: Drafted by the Tigers in the 1st round (18th pick) of the 1980 amateur draft. Seasons in Detroit: 2 (1982-83) Uniform Number: 12 Stats: .278 avg., 23 HR, 99 RBI, .739 OPS Twenty-seven years ago…
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There’s been a lot written about Jim Northrup in the past 24 hours. Here are some of the more notable pieces: At The Hardball Times, Chris Jaffe pulled together Northrup’s career highlights. Among the more interesting tidbits? His first home run came off Robin Roberts. The New York Times placed his obituary its home page.…
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The first-ever autograph I scored was Jim Northrup’s. I’m fairly confident the year was 1978 and it was at my baseball banquet at St. Isaac Jogues in St. Clair Shores. Word had spread that there would be a Tigers player at the banquet and I held out hope, despite my brother’s assurances I was nuts, that the Tiger…
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