Ty Tyson broadcast Tigers games for more than 25 years.
June 3, 1918 at Navin Field: Hub Leonard of the Boston Red Sox no-hits the Tigers, 5-0.
June 3, 1947 at Briggs Stadium: Ty Tyson handles the first TV broadcast of a Tigers game, a 3-0 loss to the New York Yankees. At the time, there are only 3,000 television sets in the Detroit area.
About Richard Bak
Richard Bak grew up on Detroit's west side cheering for the likes of Jerry Lumpe, Karl Sweetan, and Fern LeBlanc, basically because he didn't know any better. He is a contributing writer to Hour Detroit magazine and the author of nearly 30 books, including Peach: Ty Cobb in His Time and Ours and Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933. Bak has two new books out: The Big Jump, the story of Charles Lindbergh and the great New York-to-Paris air race of the 1920s, and Detroitland, a collection of his history pieces. He currently is finishing When Lions Were Kings: The Detroit Lions and the Fabulous Fifties, which will be published in 2013.
