Top Tigers teams countdown #1: The 1984 Tigers are the best team in franchise history

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The 1903 Detroit Tigers have just returned home from spring training to a wintry Detroit. Sam Crawford is in the back row third from right, and Ed Barrow is far right. Photo by Mark Rucker-Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images.
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The Cards never recovered from the Northrup grand salami!!!!
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Jose Feliciano getting ready to perform the National Anthem before game 5 of the 1968 World Series in Detroit, with guide dog Trudy by his side. Jose was invited by Ernie & his version peaked at #50 on the Billboard Hot 100, the 1st time the anthem ever appeared on the charts.
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1984 Detroit Tigers:

- No one scored or drove in 100 runs.
- No one reached 175 Hits.
- No pitcher won 20 games.
- No pitcher recorded 150 strikeouts.

104-58 and 7-1 in the postseason.

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https://www.vintagedetroit.com/35-5... the Amazing Start by the 1984 Detroit Tigers
35-5: An Oral History of the Amazing Start by the 1984 Detroit Tigers. from February 2019.
Vintage Detroit

 

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Manager Mayo Smith showing the '68 World Series lineup card for game 1. Mickey Stanley batted second and played shortstop, moving from his normal center field position with Northrup moving from RF to CF so a Healthy Al Kaline could play in RF. A gutty move that paid off, and helped the Tigers beat the Cards 4 games to 3.
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The San Diego Chicken bit off more than he could chew before game 1 of the 1984 World Series.
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What a trio! What a manager!
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The numbers that gave Willie the '84 Cy Young and MVP awards!
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33 bombs and gold glove defense!
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The most famous and important hit in the history of the Tigers!? That is Jim Northrup, of course, sliding into third base after his triple in game 7 of the '68 World Series.
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The 1961 Detroit Tigers were "Go-Go"! The club won 101 games!
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?Old Days?. Dick McAuliffe Congratulates Mickey Lolich after his HR in game 2 of the 1968 Tigers-Cardinals World Series in St.Louis. #Tigers #Detroit
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Detroit Wolverines raise their 1887 World Series pennant.
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1909 Detroit Tigers.
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Tigers in the locker room after winning the 1968 World Series.
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These 1935 Detroit Tigers World Champions brightened the lives of Detroiters and Michiganders during the brutal Great Depression that particularly ravaged industrial cities like Detroit and states like Michigan. Sports matter.
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http://www.fadeawaypodcast.com/episodes/2016/7/22/episode-3-tigers-burning-bright
Fadeaway, The Baseball History Podcast Episode 4: Tigers Burning Bright. 68 minutes.

In 1936, Mickey Cochrane was on top of the world. He was the catcher, manager, and vice president of the world champion Detroit Tigers. He had a roster packed with stars that looked poised to win back-to-back titles. But in the middle of the season, Cochrane simply walked away from baseball. Was it a nervous breakdown, or possibly a darker secret?

With special guest Tom Stanton (author of the new book Terror in the City of Champions), Episode 4 of Fadeaway examines the 1930s Tigers amid the backdrop of the Black Legion, a secret society that was torturing and murdering Detroiters at the same time the Tigers were winning pennants.

Other characters involved in this story of a troubled city include Hank Greenberg, Henry Ford, Joe Louis, Schoolboy Rowe, and Humphrey Bogart.

 

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Your 1907 Detroit Tigers.
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Your 1971 Tigers infield and pitching staff.
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