Celebrating Detroit Tigers teams, players and games from 1977 to '89.
Month: February 2016
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From Baseball-Reference.com: 1940 – The Detroit Tigers’ roster lists Hank Greenberg as an OF. The willingness of the team’s leading power hitter to switch, at a contract boost, from 1B allows manager Del Baker to find a position for Rudy York. Also on the list are Dick Bartell, picked up from the Chicago Cubs for…