Top Ten Greatest Tigers Players by Position

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Hank Greenberg, A great American Hero!

 

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Bill Freehan made 11 All Star Games, the most of any non-HOFer. Great catcher.

 

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Willie Horton having a laugh with Governor Romney.

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When Mr. Horton changed his name officially to Willie.

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Ham-handed. 1964 Manager Chuck Dressen presents a ham to Detroit Tigers' Willie Horton.

 

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The Tiger G Men! Goslin, Greenberg, and Gehringer.

I would have loved to watch the 1930's Tigers and also the Cobb era with Cobb Crawford and Veach and later with Cobb Heilmann and Veach.

 

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1943 Hal Newhouser Tigers MLB Newspaper Cartoon. Hal was a star at Wilbur Wright High School in the Motor City.

 

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When you talk about records that will likely never be broken, Pete Maravich?s NCAA 44.2 career points per game is at the top of the list.
But Mickey Lolich and Bill Freehan being a battery for 328 starts seems next to impossible to ever be chased down.
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Detroit Tigers: The 2013 Tigers starting rotation was the last of its kind.
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Speaker, Ruth and Cobb.

 

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George Kell congratulated after signing his contract to play for the Tigers in 1951.

 

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Imagine having a .370 average for an entire season.
Okay. Now imagine having a .370 average over a TEN YEAR SPAN.
"The Georgia Peach had already established himself as the 'remaker of baseball,' even after the 1909 World Series, his best years were still ahead of him.The next ten years would bear fruit of his dominance on both sides of the ball with a .370 average."~Wesley Fricks, Historian.

 

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Detroit Tigers: Hank Greenberg?s World Series Home Runs.
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Detroit legends! What a proud sports history the Motor City has!
Hank Greenberg and Joe Louis.

 

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The Mechanical Man as GM speaking with his charges.

 

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1955, Detroit Tigers Shortstop Harvey Kuenn receives a trophy from his alma mater, Lutheran High School, in Wisconsin.

 

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A 1910 image of one of the five best to play the game, Tyrus Raymond Cobb.

 

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1962: Norm Cash takes a mighty swing in Lakeland. Norm was coming off a .361 league-leading batting season in '61!

 

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Wounded Tiger George Kell recovering from a hand injury during spring training 1951.

 

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1968: Willie Horton and Mickey Lolich campaigning with Vice President Hubert Humphrey during the '68 presidential race.

 

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1938 Reach Baseball Guide with Charlie Gehringer.

 

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Any of these rookies turn out to be any good?