He was born in Narrows, Georgia on December 18, 1886, and he had a forest fire inside him. Tyrus Raymond[…]
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He 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.[…]
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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.
Read moreOur Michigan Baseball Heritage series explores the rich cultural history of professional baseball in the state of Michigan and honors[…]
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