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There hasn't been a Tigers thread since the '12 season. I know the current season has left much to be desired but thought it might still be useful to have a Tiger talk thread to discuss anything and everything Detroit Tigers.
At the current time I am interested in reading Tiger literature. There's a few new biographies about Ty Cobb and I thumbed over a recent Kaline bio at the local Barnes & Noble. Might return to pick it up. I'm also interested in a SABR publication called Detroit the Unconquerable: The 1935 World Champion Tigers by Scott Ferkovitch.
I grew up in the Denver/Colorado Springs area as a kid, the Denver Bears were the farm club (AAA) of the Tigers in the early 60's. Went to a bunch of those games, I always remember certain things, like Dick McAuliffe's batting stance! Lots of Tigers came up from Denver, some of the noteworthy ones were Jake Wood, Mickey Lolich, Dick Tracewski, Steve Boros, Bill Freehan, Dick McAuliffe, and several others.
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I grew up in the Denver/Colorado Springs area as a kid, the Denver Bears were the farm club (AAA) of the Tigers in the early 60's. Went to a bunch of those games, I always remember certain things, like Dick McAuliffe's batting stance! Lots of Tigers came up from Denver, some of the noteworthy ones were Jake Wood, Mickey Lolich, Dick Tracewski, Steve Boros, Bill Freehan, Dick McAuliffe, and several others.
Another Detroit/Denver connection would be Billy Martin managing the Bears in '68.
Not exactly the best time of year to start a baseball thread, but appropriate perhaps, since it appears the Tigers have some rebuilding to do.
By way of introduction, I started following the Tigers as a sub-teen in the late Fifties. Home is in Northeastern Pennsylvania, but the Phillies were in poor shape during those years, and in our family, you did not root for the Yankees.
Due to either the flatness of Lake Erie, the lay of the mountains, or both, the Tiger radio broadcasts on WJR always came in pretty strong, and after Mr. Harwell signed off, you only needed to move that dial a little bid to get a great variety of rock-&-roll from CKLW over in Windsor. So for an auslander, I got to know Detroit pretty well.
It might be due in part to the dispersal of Detroiters over the entire country, but I think the team's long and colorful history, its always-classy logo, its great collection of Hall-of-Famers (and the occasional rogue to keep things interesting) more than qualify the Tigers as described in my C-D "signature" -- America's baseball team.
There hasn't been a Tigers thread since the '12 season. I know the current season has left much to be desired but thought it might still be useful to have a Tiger talk thread to discuss anything and everything Detroit Tigers.
At the current time I am interested in reading Tiger literature. There's a few new biographies about Ty Cobb and I thumbed over a recent Kaline bio at the local Barnes & Noble. Might return to pick it up. I'm also interested in a SABR publication called Detroit the Unconquerable: The 1935 World Champion Tigers by Scott Ferkovitch.
Read Al Stump's unflattering (and questionable) biography of Cobb written around the time of the Georgia Peach's death in the early Sixties -- then read the new biography by Charles Leerhsen. There will be plenty to discuss here.
Read Al Stump's unflattering (and questionable) biography of Cobb written around the time of the Georgia Peach's death in the early Sixties -- then read the new biography by Charles Leerhsen. There will be plenty to discuss here.
I read Stump's book years ago and recently read Alexander's bio published in '84. The previous was an entertaining read and I laughed out loud at the telling of Cobb keeping the return postage sent along with autograph requests and burning the requests. It wasn't until recently I learned that Stump's book was a sensationalist hatchet job. The latter was a more balanced and scholarly. Looking forward to reading the recent releases.
0-11 against The Tribe this season. Many blowouts included. These games could play a crucial role in their fate this season. Good work by Cleveland, though. Definitely a team worthy of respect.
wow, swept by a mediocre Tampa Bay team......and the poor fielding, errors----can't say I've ever seen a team so bad in the field ever......
Tigers aren't very good. Teams are probably on the same level.
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