Through the years, the Detroit Tigers have had some of the most daring and successful base stealers in baseball. Here’s my attempt to pick the top ten in franchise history.
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The Detroit Stars Shined Brightly On Negro National League Baseball
They were exciting. They were proud. They were incredibly good. They were the Detroit Stars, the legendary Black baseball team that captivated the hearts and souls of Negro National League baseball fans in Detroit and beyond from 1919 to 1933. While White major league players, such as Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were deemed the superstars of baseball in their playing days, there were numerous Black players of the era who were just as good — if not better — but never got the recognition or opportunity to showcase their talents to the world, simply because their skin was black.
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Former Montreal Expos star Ron LeFlore down but not out
In 1980, the Montreal Expos, on the brink of what would have been its first trip to baseball’s treasured post-season in franchise history, were sparked by speedy outfielder Ron LeFlore, the most successful base-stealer in the National League that year.
“That was the greatest year of my career,” declared LeFlore, the ex-convict turned big league star who spent nine years in the major leagues with the Detroit Tigers, Expos and Chicago White Sox.
Read moreKirk Gibson and Football: What Could Have Been
Kirk Gibson was a very good football player in college at Michigan State. Now, let us pretend that he didn’t choose baseball. What would have happened?
Read moreFrank Tanana: One of Detroit’s Greatest High School Athletes of All Time
When Frank Tanana was 17-years-old, he had the world at his fingertips.
Read moreGrand Rapids Chicks in ‘A League of Their Own’
Rosemary Stevenson, a member of a nearly extinct group, stands in the middle of the Lee High School gym speaking into a microphone to a crowd of no more then twenty. The small audience, holding pictures of Stevenson along with bats and balls signed by the seventy- five year-old baseball player, hangs on her every word. Flanking her on both sides are two women, Marilyn Jenkins and Doris Cook, adding in bits to her story and then taking their own turn to illuminate the fans.
Read moreGalarraga’s ‘strange’ season, pending arbitration, could convince the Tigers to let him go
Jim Hawkins for the Oakland Press: For Armando Galarraga, this has been the strangest season by any Tigers’ pitcher since1952[…]
Read moreDoctoring The Numbers: Building the Best in Motor City (How the 2006 Tigers Were Built)
Three years ago, the Tigers were not simply the worst team in baseball, they had reached the lowest point of any non-expansion franchise in at least half a century. Three years later, they have the best record in the game.
Read moreOn the muscle: Weight-lifting Parrish lifts Tigers, too (9/10/1984)
If the Detroit Tigers ‘muscle’ their way to a division title and into post season play this year, they owe some of the credit to Lance Parrish.
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