February 17, 2010
By Mike McClary in Featured,Wednesday Walewanders | 2 comments
There are about 29 minutes left of Wednesday, so I can still file this collection of Tigers thoughts and make my self-imposed deadline. Did you see that Hall of Famer and Detroit Stars centerfielder Norman “Turkey” Stearnes will be inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame on Friday? The article in the Nashville Tennessean [...]
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February 17, 2010
By Mike McClary in Tweets | 0 comments
Terrific piece by @iancass on Detroit's lack of big-city polish — at least in the eyes of Johnny Damon's wife: http://bit.ly/diW8W5 #Tigers # Happy Birthday Roger Craig (80) http://bit.ly/dA3V0o Danny Patterson (39) http://bit.ly/9JTdJi & the late Wally Pipp http://bit.ly/9jG24D # On this date in 1995, Sparky Anderson is put on an involuntary leave of absence [...]
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February 15, 2010
By Mike McClary in Tweets | 0 comments
On this date in 1946 Hank Greenberg signed a $60,000 contract with the #Tigers He'd lead the A.L. in homers (44) and RBI (127) that year. # Happy Birthday, Don Kelly (30) http://bit.ly/bZp04G and Ugueth Urbina (36-ish) http://bit.ly/9cb9Lb #Tigers # On this date in 2002 the #Tigers signed recently acquired Dmitri Young to a four-year [...]
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February 14, 2010
By Mike McClary in Tweets | 0 comments
Happy 23rd Birthday, Ryan Perry #Tigers http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/perryry01.shtml # Powered by Twitter Tools
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February 12, 2010
By Mike McClary in Friday Freehans | 0 comments
Less than three weeks until Grapefruit League games. Time to get loose. If you, like me, are inexplicably fascinated by the uniform numbers worn by Tigers players, you’re going to be disappointed that the Tigers haven’t yet assigned numbers to the new guys. Arm troubles limited Doug Brocail‘s career trajectory but not his longevity — [...]
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February 12, 2010
By Mike McClary in Featured,Fungoes | 0 comments
ESPN’s Buster Olney checked in with Jeremy Bonderman this week, and it seems that Justin Verlander‘s assesment of Bondo is spot on. And, just in time, Bonderman pinpointed some mechanical issues not long before he arrived in Lakeland: About a month ago, he and his father, Gene, reviewed some videotape from earlier in his career [...]
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