Cody Stavenhagen has written the definitive look back at the final night at Tiger Stadium as the 20th anniversary approaches this week.
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20 Years Later: Remembering Tiger Stadium’s Final Game
Dan Holmes for Vintage Detroit: Looking back, I don’t think I bought anything that day. I don’t remember taking any[…]
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Six Tigers Have Lost No-Hitters With One Out To Go
Matthew 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.
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How Many Winning Trades Did Dave Dombrowski Make for the Tigers?
Back 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.
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Required Reading: Metro Times cover story on Ron LeFlore
During the tumultuous decade of the 1970s, Ron LeFlore went from the back of a patrol car to prison to patrolling the outfield for the Detroit Tigers in just over four years. It’s an astonishing tale of personal redemption through professional sports.
Read moreSaving Hamtramck Stadium – The Athletic
By Cody Stavenhagen at The Athletic ($): The first time Gary Gillette went out to the site, he took in[…]
Read moreRemembering the great Goose Goslin
Scout Joe Engel sent a telegram that evening to Clark Griffith, owner of the Washington Senators, asking for permission to sign the teenager. Griffith gave the approval, and less than two years later Goose Goslin was in the outfield for the Senators.
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Five Years Ago the Tigers Scored in Every Inning. Why Is That So Rare?
Five years ago the Tigers scored at least one run in every inning for the only time in franchise history. Why had it never happened before, and why is it so unlikely to happen again anytime soon?
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Required Reading: How Tigers’ Charlie Maxwell became ‘Sunday Charlie,’ One Sabbath Blast at a Time
During his career, Maxwell hit 40 of his 148 homers — or 27% — on Sunday. “There are unusual things that happen in baseball and I guess my Sunday homers are one of them,” says Maxwell, 92, from his home on Maple Lake in Paw Paw, where he lives with his wife Ann. Married 69 years, the couple has four children, 14 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren, all of whom live nearby.
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Required Reading: Briggs, Trumbull Recall Wild Win in 1950
Childhood friends Mickey Briggs and Elliott Trumbull reminisce about days at Briggs Stadium and a Tigers game in 1950 that went down as the greatest they had ever witnessed.
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