Archive for the 'Blast from the Past' Category

My brother and I attended the 1984 ALCS Game 3 Clincher versus the Royals at Tiger Stadium (seated in straightaway centerfield in the lower-deck bleachers) but this was before we had a VCR (remember those?) and I never got to see it replayed.
Twenty-five years later, it’s iTunes to the rescue.
I stumbled on the game [...]

Yeah, so Joel Zumaya and Fernando Rodney ruined our night tonight. We’re used to that. Take heart. The Tigers still cling to first place.
Doesn’t do much for you? Me either.
So instead of cursing the Tigers bullpen, let’s travel back 30 years to July 12, 1979 and revisit Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park, courtesy of [...]

On this date in 2005, the Tigers traded reliever/troublemaker Ugueth Urbina and infielder Ramon Martinez to the Phillies for infielder Placido Polanco. We all know how that traded worked out.
In his five-ish seasons in Detroit, Polanco has been merely a machine: .313 average, .357 OBP, playing in about 140 games a year, hitting .529 in [...]

In 1939, In his first-ever at-bat in the city of Detroit, Boston Red Sox rookie Ted Williams became the first player to hit a home run which totally cleared the right field seats at Briggs Stadium.

In 1996, the Texas Rangers became the first American League team in 79 years to pitch consecutive one-hitters as Roger [...]

I failed to mention in today’s podcast that this marks the birthday of Tigers Hall of Famer Wahoo Sam Crawford. He was born in 1880.
He broke into the majors with Reds in 1899 and stayed until 1902 when the National League and American League fought bitterly for players.
According to his Baseball-Reference.com page, before the [...]

In case you were wondering, here’s how the Tigers have fared against the Mariners since Seattle joined the American League in 1977:

All-Time Record: 185-152-1

All-Time at Home: 104-64-1

All-Time at Comerica Park: 22-18

All-Time at Seattle: 81-88

Wait a second. The Tigers and Mariners played to a tie? In the 20th century?
This little item sent me scrambling to my [...]

A 1985 interview with Mark Fidrych on the TV show “Once a Star”, hosted by Jack Brickhouse, Steve Stone and former Pistons guard and TV color analyst John “Crash” Mengelt.