Top Ten Greatest Tigers Players by Position

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https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...all-detroit-tigers-digging-graves/5384478002/
Ex-Detroit Tiger Richie Hebner dug graves for 35 years: 'Guess I like working with stiffs'.
Freep

 

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https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...troit-tigers-gold-glove-infielder/5425380002/
Ex-Detroit Tiger Frank Bolling, team's first Gold Glove infielder, dies at 88.
Freep

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29452711/two-all-star-second-baseman-frank-bolling-dies
Ex-Tiger Two-time All-Star second baseman Frank Bolling dies.
espn

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RIP Frank Bolling. Twelve years in #MLB, never played an inning at any position except second base. DYK Frank was one of the first nine players to take the field in an ATLANTA Braves uniform? Go beyond his stats on #BaseballAlmanac.
https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=bollifr01
FRANK BOLLING STATS.
Baseball Almanac

 

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https://motorcitybengals.com/2020/07/14/gates-brown-detroit-tigers-part-1/
Gates Brown: When ?The Gator? Was A Tiger (Part 1). Great Read.
MCBTB

 

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Ty Cobb Tigers from circa 1913. You know about Cobb's hits; he also led AL in slugging 8X, OPS 10X; and OPS+ 12X.

 

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https://www.mlb.com/news/every-baseball-uniform-number-ever-ranked-by-value
Every uniform number ever, ranked by value.
The most valuable jersey number is.....
MLB.com

 

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https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29475625/former-phillies-infielder-coach-tony-taylor-dies-84
Ex-Tiger and Former Phillies infielder, coach Tony Taylor dies at 84.
espn

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tony_Taylor
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tayloto02.shtml
Tony Taylor Tigers 1971-1973. Born December 19, 1935. Same birthday as Al Kaline.

 

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Part of a legendary history of Tigers...

 

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OTD 1961: Ty Cobb dies in Atlanta at age 74. Cobb's career bWAR as a Tiger was 114.7 per Baseball Reference.

 

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http://navinfieldgroundscrew.blogspot.com/
Turkey at the bat.
Hamtramck Stadium Grounds Crew

 

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https://motorcitybengals.com/2020/07/22/gates-brown-detroit-tigers-gator/
Gates Brown: When ?The Gator? Was A Tiger (Part 2). Great story on a Great Tiger.
MCBTB

 

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1910: OTD Photographer Charles Conlon snapped one of the most iconic photos of Ty Cobb kicking up a cloud of dirt as he slides into third base.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Edo3XOcXYAIPoTL?format=jpg&name=medium

 

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The G-Men powered the Tigers to consecutive pennants in 1934-35.
(Greenberg, Goslin, Gehringer, shown here with Pete Fox at Fenway Park).

 

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Detroit Tigers OF/1B Harry Heilmann during his first spring training.
Gulfport, Mississippi. March, 1914.
The baby-faced 19-year old made his #MLB debut on May 16.
One of the most underrated hitters of all-time: 4 batting titles, .342 BA, 148 OPS+.

 

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Tyrus Raymond Cobb, courtesy of Dick Perez.

 

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Willie Mays was Ty Cobb's favorite player!!! Goes against the Al Stump narrative by alot. The @tycobbmuseum would love to see more pictures like this shared.

 

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1904 Ty Cobb Augusta of the South Atlantic League.

 

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Ty Cobb led the A.L. 9 straight years in Batting Average and OPS+ Nine Consecutive Years 1907-1915. Average Season .376 BA and 189 OPS+

https://twitter.com/i/status/1287783112076820480
We're proud to celebrate 22 years of the #TyCobbMuseum!
Here's a look back to 2018 for the 20th Anniversary celebration at the
Braves game with some of Ty Cobb's family, @DaveCobb33 Charlie, Madeline & Herschel.
We'd love for you to tweet us your favorite #Cobb memories!

 

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In 1971 Detroit Tigers Lefty Starting Pitcher Mickey Lolich faced 1,538 batters, the first pitcher to face 1500+ batters since Bob Feller (1946). Lolich tossed 376.0 innings, allowed (336) Hits and recorded (308) Strikeouts.
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https://motorcitybengals.com/2020/08/04/detroit-tigers-bobby-higginson-underrated/
Underrated Detroit Tigers-Bobby Higginson.
MCBTB

 

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These two were rock solid for over a decade on the right side of the Tigers infield! Cash and McAuliffe.