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Author: Joe Falls Publisher: Prentice Hall Direct ISBN: 9780132026987 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 212
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Traces the history of Detroit's baseball team from their beginnings in the late nineteenth century through the 1988 season and offers club records, statistics, and historic photographs.
Author: Joe Falls Publisher: Prentice Hall Direct ISBN: 9780132026987 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
Traces the history of Detroit's baseball team from their beginnings in the late nineteenth century through the 1988 season and offers club records, statistics, and historic photographs.
Author: Richard Bak Publisher: Wayne State University Press ISBN: 9780814325124 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 518
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On April 28, 1896, baseball fans traveled in horse-drawn buggies to watch the Detroit Tigers play their first baseball game at the site on the corner of Michigan and Trumbull Avenues. Starting out as Bennett Park, a wooden facility with trees growing in the outfield, Tiger Stadium has played a central role in the lives of millions of Detroiters and their families for more than a century. During the last century, millions of fans have come to Michigan and Trumbull to watch the Tigers' 7,800 home games, as well as to attend numerous other sporting, social, and civic events, including high school, collegiate, and professional football games, prep and Negro league baseball contests, political rallies, concerts, and boxing and soccer matches. A companion to the narrative history, almost two hundred rare photographs capture the spirit of 140 years of baseball in Detroit. A Place for Summer furnishes a sense of the relationship between the community, its teams, and the various fields, parks, and stadiums that have served as common ground for generations of Detroiters.
Author: Mark Pattison Publisher: Wayne State University Press ISBN: 9780814330401 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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A wide-ranging compilation of facts, statistics, stories, and entertaining speculation, this book will surprise even the most avid fan of the Detroit Tigers. Published in the wake of the Tigers' American League centennial, it pays tribute to the team of Ty Cobb, Al Kaline, and Hank Greenberg, to name but a few of Detroit's Baseball Hall of Famers. Here two longtime Tigers experts—journalist Mark Pattison and statistician David Raglin—have distilled a hundred-plus years of Detroit baseball history into more than four hundred lists. In this entertaining and fascinating collection, readers will find information not available elsewhere, such as the starting eight Mayo Smith used for all seven games of the 1968 World Series, or the 1987 "Showdown Series" where the Tigers and the Toronto Blue Jays battled for the AL East pennant. "Inside this book," writes Dale Petroskey, "is the stuff that young baseball fans grew up on, and the stuff that older baseball fans get to relive their youth with."
Author: George Cantor Publisher: Triumph Books ISBN: 1623681510 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 184
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Award-winning Detroit columnist George Cantor revisits the 1984 World Series champion Detroit Tigers with unparalleled insight into what the season meant to a reeling city filled with delirious fans. The book delves into the details of a year when fantasy became reality--the Tigers chewed up their opponents, spit them out, and catapulted to the top without looking back--and provides fans with the opportunity to relive a season in history that baseball aficionados won't soon forget.
Author: Patrick Joseph Harrigan Publisher: ISBN: 9780802009340 Category : Baseball Languages : en Pages : 0
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A vivid portrait of a team, a sport and its far-reaching influence. The Detroit Tigers are a curious reflection of America's post-war urban society and this book illustrates the inextricable links between this team and its hometown.
Author: William Martin Anderson Publisher: Wayne State University Press ISBN: 9780814328262 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 310
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In this revised pictorial history of the Detroit Tigers, William M. Anderson highlights the greatest players and moments in Tiger history. The Detroit Tigers begins with the team's membership in the National League 0881-1888) and covers its history through the 1998 season. Containing over 440 photographs, three- fourths of which are new images, The Detroit Tigers captures the traditions of baseball and fuses them with the memories of a beloved team.
Author: Paul Taylor Publisher: Wayne State University Press ISBN: 0814339301 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 260
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Readers interested in American history, Civil War history, or the ethnic history of Detroit will appreciate the full picture of the time period Taylor presents in "Old Slow Town."
Author: Richard Bak Publisher: Wayne State University Press ISBN: 9780814323564 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 398
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Players' interviews are prefaced with a short history of the parallel paths the city and professional baseball took from the end of World War I through the early 1950s.
Author: Bill Lajoie Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462825486 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 358
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Bill Lajoie just had it. When it came to drafting ballplayers and building a World Series club, few in baseball history can match his extraordinary success. The lessons of Lajoies illustrious career and the brilliance of his philosophy are put to print in Character is Not a Statistic. After a playing career that fell achingly short of the major leagues, Lajoie returned to Detroit to become a teacher in the mid-1960s. But his unyielding passion for baseball and desire to atone for a broken dream pulled him back to the game as a scout. From there, hed go on to build World Series Championships from scratch by finding players who possessed the very character he lacked as a young athlete. Starting as an area scout for the Cincinnati Reds in 1965, Lajoie later moved up the ladder with the Detroit Tigers and was the architect and general manager of their 1984 World Series crowning. Lajoie would then be instrumental as an assistant GM for two more franchises who dominated their decades with championships and titles; the 1990s Atlanta Braves and the 2000s Boston Red Sox. Perhaps no one alive has scouted more baseball over the last 50 years or has better stories to tell about finding the greats. Though the modern era has seen the depersonalization of scouting via statistics and radar gun readings, Lajoie was immensely successful through five decades by emphasizing what a player had inside him. His belief in a players humanity and character persists to this day. This book is not only a biography, but a collection of great baseball stories and a manual for the next generation of fans and scouts alike. Lajoie tackles such controversial issues as the Moneyball movement, the importance of a strong manager, scouting for makeup, making trades, preventing pitching injuries, running a farm system, and ranking both the best general managers and scouting directors of the modern era.
Author: Joe Falls
Author: Joe Falls
Author: Richard Bak
Author: George Cantor
Author: Mark Pattison
Author: George Cantor
Author: Patrick Joseph Harrigan
Author: William Martin Anderson
Author: Paul Taylor
Author: Richard Bak
Author: Bill Lajoie