Celebrating Detroit Tigers teams, players and games from 1977 to '89.
Month: November 2024
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Number 20 Fifty-two Detroit Tigers have worn number 20, and it’s currently worn by Spencer Torkelson. But the first player I remember wearing number 20 was Mark Fidrych from 1976 to 1980. After that, it belonged to: *Rich Hebner, in 1982, was the final player to wear number 2 before it was retired. Birthdays Tarik…
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Number 14 From 1977 to 1992, only two players wore number 14 for the Tigers, both of them (mostly) played first base and were fan favorites: A.J. Hinch currently wears it, but wore number 40 when he played for Detroit in 2003. Birthdays Clete Thomas, Fu-Te Ni, Johnnie Seale and the late Willie Hernández and…
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#13 In 124 seasons, only 15 players have worn number 13* for the Tigers. For me, it will always be Lance Parrish‘s number, which he wore for 10 seasons, 1977 through 1986. Here’s something: Before The Big Wheel put on number 13 in 1977, the number sat unworn for 13 years after Bill Faul hung it…
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According to Baseball Reference, 54 players have worn the number 12 in Tigers franchise history. Casey Mize currently wears it. Let’s look at a few Tigers that wore number 12 during the Fungo’s focus, 1977 through 1994: Birthdays Ryan Kreidler, Alex Faedo, Gary Thurman and the late Herm Merritt, Red McDermott and Ed Killian Today’s Grid…
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There are many candidates for this distinction, but I think Mike Moore was the quintessential Dave Duncan reclamation project in the late 1980s. He went from a so-so starter in Seattle to a 19-game winner in Oakland. By the time he signed a three-year, $10 million contract with the Tigers in 1993, most of that…
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The World Series Parade: Oct. 16, 1984 I asked my Dad if I could skip the afternoon portion of that junior-year school day. It was a hard no. I was on the yearbook staff and we decided it the 1984-85 edition of Spectus would not be complete without some on-the-ground photos and coverage of the…
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The 1996 season is two years beyond the usual scope of The Daily Fungo, but what they hay; let’s take a look at Eddie Williams‘ career in Detroit. The Tigers signed Williams to a one-year contract on Jan. 2, 1996, one of the first of many Padres-related transactions made by new Tigers GM Randy Smith,…
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