Baseball Historians

Yesterday when I was at the White Sox/Nationals game, Adam Dunn went 0 for 4 with four strikeouts.  When I was looking at the Tigers box score, I noticed that Austin Jackson also had four strikeouts and was 0 for 4 (although he drew one walk).  Four …

Jim Northrup passed away.  He played eleven seasons in a Tigers uniform from 1964 through 1974 and he’s best known for two things.  First, he hit five grand slams in 1968.  Second, in that same year, he drove home the winning run in game seven…

It seems like forever since the Tigers played in the World Series, then after their loss to the Cardinals, made an offensive push by trading a package of prospects to the Yankees for Gary Sheffield.  Shef is with the Mets and while he never lived up to the hype, never did the cornerstone of the [...]

Yeah, I know Gibby has two big postseason home runs but one means more to Tiger fans then the other.  I posted a great piece on Tigers Corner by Bill Dow this morning on game five of the 1984 World Series. It contains extensive quotes from Kirk Gibson himself, as well as Sparky Anderson and [...]

One of my daily reads is Beyond the Boxscore and one of their features is the Graph of the Day.  Yesterday’s gragh took a look at some of the best second basemen and their respective Wins Above Replacement.  When I looked at the graph, I immediately thought Lou Whitaker but I wasn’t alone because he [...]

Patrick Sullivan at Baseball Analysts had a nice column on the best players at each position who played their entire careers for one team.   Not only did Charlie Gehringer make the cut, but he got the most competition from former Tiger Lou Whitaker at second base.
I thought there was a relatively new biography on Gehringer [...]

Chris Jaffe, at the Hardball Times, penned an interesting piece on how the Tigers have never really had great pitching.  At least not historically.  He takes a look at the first half of the Tigers’ history.  As he talks about, there’s pretty much Hal Newhouser then everyone else.  Tommy Bridges warrants some Hall of Fame [...]

Matt Joyce made the BA Top Twenty International League prospects.  I’m not sure what the criteria is, but I’m surprised Jeff Larish didn’t make the list.  There were some 26 year olds on the list, but it looks like Joyce made it more for what he did at the big league level then anything.  He [...]

I’ve been working with Bill Dow, a freelance baseball writer, on the 2008 Edition of Tigers Corner and when he mentioned he had an interview with Ron LeFlore that one of the big papers didn’t end up running, I asked him if he’d like to put it up on Tigerblog.  Fortunately for us, he was nice [...]

SABR is putting out a book on the 1968 Tigers next year and I’ve been busy working two biographies on Wayne Comer and Les Cain. I’d be interested to hear if any readers have stories or comments on either guy so if you know of either guy, drop me a line of leave a [...]

40 years ago today, the 1967 baseball season started and on the American League side, we had the closest pennant race ever.  I’ve talked about this before, but with the help of some fellow bloggers, I’ve put together a website on the 1967 American League Pennant race to relive this classic season.  And for Tiger [...]

I must have totally missed this.  I knew Tram was the bench coach for Lou Pinella and the Cubs but I didn’t realize that Kirk Gibson got a job as the bench coach for the Diamondbacks.  They bring up his time with Dodgers when during the spring season he had black eye put in his [...]

I got a sneak peak of the Tigers World Series DVD today and I have to say I’m impressed.  In short, it provides highlights of each of the three previous World Series wins for the Tigers (yes, it goes all the way back to 1945) and while that’s interesting by itself, there’s a certain “coolness” [...]

Record – 62-90, Finished Seventh Place in the American League
Pythagorean Record – 61-91
Starters
Hitters (BA/OBP/SLG)
C – Lew Drill (.244/.335/.294)
1b – Charlie Carr (.214/.245/.267)
2b – Bobby Lowe (.208/.236/.259)
3b – Ed Gremminger (.214/.257/.285)
SS – Charley O’Leary (.213/.254/.254)
LF – Matty McIntyre (.253/.310/.317)
CF – Jimmy Barrett (.268/.353/.300)
RF – Sam Crawford (.254/.309/.361)
Team Leaders
Homeruns – Sam Crawford, Matty McIntyre (2)
Batting Average – [...]

One of my favorite baseball author’s, Tom Stanton, has a new book coming out in May about the relationship between Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth.  While considered rivals, it looks like there was more to the two then the competition between the two and they eventually turned out to be good friends.  I had a [...]

A&E is releasing a Tigers World Series DVD at the end of the month that will provide highlights of the 1945, 1968 and 1984 World Series.  It’s about two hours so you probably get about 40 minutes on each.  Looks pretty cool and for $15, I’ll probably pick it up.
What I’d really like is something [...]

I finished a brief Bill Freehan retrospective over at the 1967 AL Pennant Race site.  Things have been a little slow over there but I’m going to urge the other writers to ramp things up leading into the regular season.  It should be a fun site and I’m looking forward to the actual season diary [...]