This month left Tigers fans feeling bitter all over again about the Hall of Fame selection process and the continued[…]
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This month left Tigers fans feeling bitter all over again about the Hall of Fame selection process and the continued[…]
Read moreHe was born in Narrows, Georgia on December 18, 1886, and he had a forest fire inside him. Tyrus Raymond[…]
Read moreWhen the Detroit Tigers of the newly christened American League debuted in 1901, only one Michigan native took the field.[…]
Read moreTo me, there is no doubt. There is no debate. There is no question what the greatest and most important[…]
Read moreAn infielder, an owner, a contract, a lawsuit, a Michigan Supreme Court case—they all play into the history of Detroit baseball.
Read moreGeorge Mullin, the Tigers’ ace, was beaten in game one. He looked to bounce back in game four at Bennett Park. It was a bitterly cold day. At game time, it was a frigid 34 degrees, and getting colder.
Read moreBack in 2014, when Rany Jazayerli ran the numbers for Grantland, he found that Dombrowski’s trades netted a positive for Detroit a vast majority of the time, building a perennial contender via one of the most successful front office track records of the era.
Read moreLong before it was known as the Paris of the Midwest, and more than a decade before it claimed its first major league team, Detroit set its sights on becoming the center of baseball—at least for a week. Just two years after the end of the Civil War, the city made its mark on the new sport by hosting the “World Base Ball Tournament.”
Read moreSam Crawford made separate commitments with both the Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds before the 1903 season. In the midst of a war between the American and National Leagues, it took a “peace conference” to sort it all out.
Read moreThey were mirror images of each other, Trammell and Whitaker, Whitaker and Trammell, one white, the other black; one a left-handed hitter, the other right; one a second baseman, the other a shortstop; one as quiet as a tree, the other, as the old line goes, would talk to a tree–different but exactly the same, too. Good fielders, good baserunners, underrated, beloved, lifetime Detroit Tigers.
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