Baseball Historians

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 […]