Detroit Tigers Reader

Name: Detroit Tigers Reader
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ISBN: 9780472030170

ISBN-10: 0472030175

ISBN-13: 9780472030170

Edition: 2005

Authors: Tom Stanton

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"The Detroit Tigers Reader celebrates the great moments and personalities of the city's rich baseball history. The story of the Tigers---like the story of Detroit itself---is one of resilience and endurance. For baseball fans it's also an intensely personal one: Detroit Tigers baseball has flowed through the veins of generations of families. The essays, articles, and letters in "The Detroit Tigers Reader capture those stories and the essence of the Tigers' spirit, tracing the history of the team from its first game on April 25, 1901, up through the arrival of "Pudge" Rodriguez in 2004. With contributions from some of the greatest sportswriters and athletes, as well as local journalists…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 8/29/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Tom Stanton, an award-winning journalist of twenty-five years, is the author of two memoirs, The Road to Cooperstown and The Final Season, winner of the Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year. He lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their children.



Preface



Dear boy



Defeated, again


Life is short



A new home



A day with Cobb



A baseball romance


To war


Germany the jokester



Ownie Carroll



Schoolboy



Yearning for Detroit



Game four



Advice for the manager


Victory finally



Mickey's done



Chasing Babe



One for dad



Satchel in the park



TNT



"Prince" Hal?



Tool late



The unlikely hitter



Harvey for Rocky



Stormin' Norman



Tame Tigers



The pride within



The rookie



Thank you



A lucky man



The natural



One bad day



Worst ever?



The owner



Jack's gem



On Kaline's knee



My roommate Jo-Jo



Baby Babe



Sentimental Willie



White knight



Quiet greatness



Sparky



Tram and Whitaker



The final season



Beautiful losers?



Pudge arrives