Detroit Tigers

In the process of doing research on some other things, I ran across a story I didn’t know, and it has to do with a former owner of WKFR, and how he was instrumental in the integration of the Detroit Tigers in 1958.

Will he be the next Justin Verlander, or Max Scherzer? Or will he be another Jeremy Bonderman or Joel Zumaya, or maybe like the fictional Nuke La Loosh? Detroit Tigers fans will being to find out beginning this week. The Tigers' 2018 over-all number one draft pick was called up to the big club,…

There's a "where are they now" feature on former Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland, in the Detroit Free-Press today. The writer of the feature asked Leyland about Major League Baseball's and Commissioner Rob Manfred's initiative to speed up the game, and Leyland, true to fo…

If you're a Detroit Tigers fan, it probably feels like forever, but actually it's only been six years since the Tigers played in the post season, eight years since their last World Series appearance.

For an entire generation and more, there wasn't a classier, more dignified, icon of what it meant to be a Detroit Tiger than Al Kaline. For 22 years on the field, and twice that off it as a broadcaster, executive and ambassador for the team, Kaline was synonymous with the Detroit Tigers. The De…

It's funny, the attachment you build to a ballpark when baseball is in your blood, in your soul. I swear I have never seen grass so green as at a major league ballpark. I'm also surprised how many tears the tearing down of one can bring on.

The Kansas City Chiefs are in Detroit this weekend to play the Lions. A few years ago Chiefs quarterback, Patrick Mahomes was a Detroit Tigers draft pick.

If there ever was a more classic example of 'what have you done for me, lately?' you would be hard pressed to top Sunday's firing of WMU alumni Dave Dombrowski as president of the World Champion Boston Red Sox.

The danger in writing a piece like this is, as always, sounding whiny and sniveling. But since there's money involved, I guess I can justify it that way. All this is prompted by news of the Tigers trading

"Anybody can do that. You just open your mouth." That's pretty much how most people feel about broadcasting in general, and specifically, sports broadcasting.