Tigers All 50s squad

[tycobb420]

http://www.examiner.com/baseball-history-in-detroit/detroit-tigers-all-decade-team-1950-1959

Kaline, Maxwell, Bunning, Kuenn...

 

[kalinecountry]

Thanks Ty,
The Tigers of my youth...although I have sparse memories of Kell and Dropo, and little of Johnny Groth as Tigers, The rest of them gave me thrills as a kid.
We all know about Kaline, as we do Bunning and then having several great seasons with the phillies, Kuenn was a line drive hitting machine with a chaw of tobacco stuck in his cheek. Charlie Maxwell for about a month, maybe a week or two longer, hit homeruns successive Sundays, off the top of my head I think in 1959.

 

[tycobb420]

Welcome. I noticed some weak positions in the fifties...1b and catcher. Definitley not RF though!

 

[turok]

Welcome. I noticed some weak positions in the fifties...1b and catcher. Definitley not RF though!

I was too young to remember anything about the Tigers teams of the 50s, but there were also quite a few weak positions on the Tigers teams during the 90s and the first half of the 00s too, unfortunately.

As well as on the mound..sigh.



It was often difficult to root for those teams, and instead, I rooted more for the accomplishments and successes of some of their individual players. I still remember my first visit to CoPa, during its inaugural '00 season, and the alienated/distanced feeling that I had experienced, after decades of the obviously cozier and familiar confines of Tiger Stadium. I actually was a bit put off, if not totally indifferent to the plaques, statues, tributes, and memorials of former Tigers stars who were on display, b/c of the fact that none had ever played there.

 

[tycobb420]

Welcome. I noticed some weak positions in the fifties...1b and catcher. Definitley not RF though!

I was too young to remember anything about the Tigers teams of the 50s, but there were also quite a few weak positions on the Tigers teams during the 90s and the first half of the 00s too, unfortunately.

As well as on the mound..sigh.



It was often difficult to root for those teams, and instead, I rooted more for the accomplishments and successes of some of their individual players. I still remember my first visit to CoPa, during its inaugural '00 season, and the alienated/distanced feeling that I had experienced, after decades of the obviously cozier and familiar confines of Tiger Stadium. I actually was a bit put off, if not totally indifferent to the plaques, statues, tributes, and memorials of former Tigers stars who were on display, b/c of the fact that none had ever played there.

Wondering what that 90s squad would look like! Fryman, Fielder, Easley, and...???

 

[turok]

Wondering what that 90s squad would look like! Fryman, Fielder, Easley, and...???

Clark, Higginson, Pena...uhh...well, maybe "some" was a bit optimistic...and a few would have been more accurate...haha.