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Detroit Tigers Archive
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’84 champ Rozema’s fine rookie season and kung-fu kick earn him place in Tiger history
Posted on February 2, 2012 | No CommentsIn 1977 the Tigers introduced a bumper crop of rookies fresh from the team’s rich farm club system, five of whom would help produce a world championship seven years later.... -
Is the Brandon Inge era over in Detroit?
Posted on February 1, 2012 | 1 CommentAs Tiger fans continue to react to the shocking free agent acquisition of Prince Fielder, speculation abounds over the 2012 lineup and proposed shift of Miguel Cabrera across the diamond... -
Morris has a real shot at Hall of Fame in 2013
Posted on January 30, 2012 | 1 CommentJack Morris is being asked to finish strong one more time. The pitcher who embodied durability, dependability, and tenaciousness during his 18-year career, needs to complete what he started once... -
Remembering the final weekend at Tiger Stadium
Posted on January 29, 2012 | No CommentsThis article originally appeared in The Freeman’s Journal in September of 1999. Parting is such sweet sorrow. Such is the genius of Shakespeare, that even now, half a millennium later,... -
Tony Phillips was jack of all trades for Sparky Anderson
Posted on January 28, 2012 | No CommentsIf you had to describe Tony Phillips as something that could fit in your pocket, it would have been a Swiss Army knife. Few ballplayers in baseball history have been... -
When Wade Boggs gave me the evil eye at Tiger Stadium
Posted on January 27, 2012 | No CommentsWade Boggs won a Gold Glove for his play at third base in 1994 and 1995. Everyone has the right to jeer when they go to a baseball game. Once... -
Detroit welcomes a Prince-ly Tiger
Posted on January 26, 2012 | No CommentsBig Daddy’s little boy is back in town, and he’s all grown up. Fresh from signing a nine-year free agent deal worth more than $200 million, Prince Fielder was introduced... -
“Black Mike” and Detroit’s Roaring ’30s
Posted on January 26, 2012 | No CommentsWe know of him as “Mickey” or “Black Mike,” but his real name was Gordon Stanley Cochrane. He was born 108 years ago in Bridgewater, Massachusetts in the spring of 1903... -
Prince Fielder and a new era of The Tiger
Posted on January 25, 2012 | 2 CommentsThe news of the Tigers signing Prince Fielder on Tuesday was … well, it was mind-boggling, stunning, almost too much to comprehend. If it had happened in New York, Los... -
The Detroit Tigers’ pixie shortstop Donie Bush
Posted on January 24, 2012 | No CommentsLong before shortstops were expected to bat .300 and hit for power, the Detroit Tigers fielded a miniature fielding machine named Donie Bush. His career with the Tigers began in...
