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A quiz:

Tom Seaver holds the record for most Opening-Day starts (16) but he doesn?t hold the record for most consecutive Opening-Day starts. Who does?

The answer to the quiz is Jack Morris, who made 14 consecutive Opening Day starts from 1980-1993. Seaver (1968-1979) and Robin Roberts (1950-1961) are tied for second with 12 straight.

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Tigers fans who were following the team in the 1990s will remember Justin Thompson. More to the point, they?ll remember what might have been. A Houston-area high school phenom whom Detroit drafted 32nd overall in 1991, Thompson went on to make an American League All-Star team at age 24, this in a season where he went 15-11 with a 3.02 ERA over 223-and-a-third innings. The excellence was short-lived. The southpaw began dealing with arm issues, and the ensuing two seasons yielded a combined record of 20-26 with a 4.47 ERA. From that point forward, he pitched in just two more big-league games.

I asked one of Thompson?s former Detroit teammates about him on my recent visit to Arizona Diamondbacks camp.

?He had a really promising career,? said Damion Easley, who is now an assistant hitting coach with the D-Backs. ?A lefty. Dominant. Good fastball. Good slider. Attacked hitters. For whatever reason, he just couldn?t stay healthy. It?s a shame. He had an upward trajectory, and I think he would have been a multi-year All-Star.?

Thompson?s lone All-Star season was 1997, and a year later, Easley made one of his own. Blessed with a long career ? he played 17 seasons as an infielder ? Easley banged out 27 home runs, and drove in 100 runs, for Detroit in 1998.
 
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Many fans of baseball history know that Virgil Trucks threw two no-hitters for the Detroit Tigers in 1952, a season in which the right-hander had a record of 5-19. Not as well known is that he nearly had a third no-hitter.
On July 22nd of that year, Trucks surrendered a single to the first batter he faced ? Washington Senators third baseman Eddie Yost ? but allowed no hits thereafter. The final score of all three games was 1-0.

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