To me, there is no doubt. There is no debate. There is no question what the greatest and most important[…]
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To me, there is no doubt. There is no debate. There is no question what the greatest and most important[…]
Read moreMatthew Boyd lost a no-hitter in excruciating fashion in 2017, on a double with two outs in the ninth inning. The Tigers have lost five other no-hitters in their history with one out to go.
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 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 moreThe thing I will miss most about Tiger Stadium are all the empty seats. Not on game day. But when the game is over. How many days, how many nights, did I sit in the press box when the game was over and our work was done and look out at the empty stadium. The ushers and guards had gone home and the groundscrew was finished with their work and all that remained were those empty seats. Those lovely empty seats.
Read moreImagine being a teenager in 1940s Detroit and taking the street car to Michigan and Trumbull to watch the Tigers[…]
Read moreOur Michigan Baseball Heritage series explores the rich cultural history of professional baseball in the state of Michigan and honors[…]
Read moreIf Alan Trammell gets a Hall of Fame plaque, why is his double play partner Lou Whitaker—who had an essentially identical career—shut out not only from induction but from voting consideration altogether? There is no rational reason to induct Ryne Sandberg in 2005, Roberto Alomar in 2011, and Craig Biggio in 2015, while keeping Whitaker—whose numbers keep pace or surpass them—not only out of the Hall but off the ballot. So what’s going on? I’ve seen at least eight different explanations.
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