Top Ten Greatest Tigers Players by Position

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Nobody was better, bigger, for the Tigers in the 1990a than 'Big Daddy' Cecil Fielder.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1373775907303919627

 

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Alan Trammell In Tiger Stadium.
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Detroit Tigers Outfielder Jim Northrup smiles during an interview after his game-winning hit in the tenth inning of game 4 of the 1972 ALCS.
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1937: Goose Goslin, Dizzy Dean, Lyn Lary, Jimmy Foxx, and Hank Greenberg at the Deaville Cabana Club at Miami Beach prior to spring training.
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Detroit Tigers pitching legend Mark "The Bird" Fidrych talks about his quirky and colorful mound habits during a classic profile narrated by Mel Allen! #MLB #Baseball #History
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Light shining on 11 time All-Star Bill Freehan in 1974.
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The Light will really Shine on Bill Freehan when He is Finally elected to the Baseball Hall Of Fame.
What say you @officialBBWAA

 

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You really have to Love this pic of Northrup after hitting a grand slam in Game 6 of the WS, and being welcomed by Kaline, Horton and Freehan.
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OTD 2013: Virgil "Fire" Trucks dies in Calera, Alabama, at age 95. Pitched two no-hitters during the 1952 season.
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Lou Whitaker had 3+ WAR 15 times. Only 14 players had more:
Bonds
Cobb
Aaron
Mays
Speaker
F. Robinson
Ott
Collins
Beltre
Musial
Ruth
Wagner
A. Rodriguez
Williams

Whitaker tied with;
Ripken Jr.
Ricky Henderson
Kaline
Rogers Hornsby
Joe Morgan

https://stathead.com/baseball/seaso...-1&location=pob&locationMatch=is&isHOF=either

 

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https://www.vintagedetroit.com/blog...a-the-man-who-made-his-fastball-go-zoom-zoom/
Joel Zumaya: The man who made his fastball go ?Zoom-Zoom?.
Vintage Detroit

 

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1968 Sporting News article profiling Willie Horton and the Tigers.
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Eddie Matthews shaking hands with ex-Braves teammates after being honored in a ceremony at Comiskey Park on August 26, 1968.
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2009: George Kell dies in Swifton, Arkansas, at age 86. Hall of Fame player and longtime broadcaster for Tigers.
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1961: Sluggers abound as Roger Maris, Rocky Colavito, Norm Cash, and Mickey Mantle catch up at the batting cage.
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2013 #Tigers #AllStars
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A popular player wherever he played,The Tigers Rocky Colavito gets ready for an early 1960s game at Yankee Stadium.
#Tigers #Indians #Athletics #Yankees #WhiteSox #Dodgers #MLB #1960s
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OTD 1901: John Fetzer is born in Decatur, Indiana. Tigers owner from 1961 to 1983. The radio magnate from Kalamazoo was called "the most powerful force in baseball."
Read about his legacy from Mitch Lutzke:
https://tigershistory.com/features/...d-outsized-role-in-baseball-and-broadcasting/
Understated John Fetzer Played Outsized Role in Baseball and Broadcasting.
Tigers History Project

 

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Spring 1925: Corner of Chene and Trombly in front of the Paulus Barber Shop in Detroit. Hall of Famers Harry Heilmann and Babe Ruth holding up Joe Paulus (shop owner's son) on their shoulders.
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Detroit Tigers "Battalion of Death" Copper Plaque the late 1930?s Detroit Tigers: Greenberg at first, Gehringer at second, Rogell at shortstop, and Owen at third - with impressionistic likenesses and an appropriately chilling ?Battalion of Death? at its bottom.
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1925 Tigers. Read about them in the Detroit Times!
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