Download or read book The Detroit Tigers Reader written by Tom Stanton and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and fans, The Detroit Tigers Reader charts the highs and lows of one of the most extraordinary and celebrated teams in baseball history. Includes contributions from Mitch Albom Dave Anderson Joseph Durso Joe Falls Hank Greenberg Ernie Harwell Al Kaline Mike Lupica Grantland Rice Damon Runyon Babe Ruth Neal Shine
Download or read book Detroit Tigers The written by Mark Stewart and published by Norwood House Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised Team Spirit Baseball edition featuring the Detroit Tigers that chronicles the history and accomplishments of the team. The Team Spirit series paints an engaging, detailed yet accessible picture of professional sports teams. By focusing on the history, great victories and memorable personalities, the books have an enduring quality that will not go out of date quickly. The text is enhanced with plenty of full color photographs as well as reproductions of vintage trading cards and team memorabilia. Once you have the books, be sure to check out the new EXTRA INNINGS website to go along with the reading material! This site will be continuously updated with all new information on every baseball team – the perfect source for up-to-date statistics and player information for young sports fans. Each website includes: • Achievement Updates, More Go-To Guys, More Fun Facts, League Leaders, and more!
Download or read book Detroit Tigers 101 written by Brad M. Epstein and published by Michaelson Entertainment. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detroit Tigers 101 is required reading for every Tigers fan! From Ty Cobb, 'the Georgia Peach' to cheering on the team with Paws in Comerica Park, you'll share all the memories with the next generation. Enjoy all the traditions of your favorite team, learn the basics about playing baseball and share your passion for America's pastime! Die cut in the shape of a baseball. Officially licensed by Major League Baseball.
Download or read book Wire to Wire written by George Cantor and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning Detroit columnist George Cantor revisits the 1984 World Series champion Detroit Tigers with unparalleled insight into what the season meant to a reeling city filled with delirious fans. The book delves into the details of a year when fantasy became reality--the Tigers chewed up their opponents, spit them out, and catapulted to the top without looking back--and provides fans with the opportunity to relive a season in history that baseball aficionados won't soon forget.
Download or read book Detroit Tigers written by George Cantor and published by Publications International. This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm, nostalgic look at a storied brand. Covers eight decades of the most-loved Chryslers.
Download or read book The Bird The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych written by Doug Wilson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lanky, mop-topped, and nicknamed for his resemblance to Big Bird on Sesame Street, Fidrych exploded onto the national stage during the Bicentennial summer as a rookie with the Detroit Tigers. He won over fans nationwide with his wildly endearing antics, but quickly emerged as one of the best pitchers in the game. Fidrych was named starting pitcher in the All-Star Game as a rookie and became the first athlete to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Wilson recounts Fidrych's meteoric rise, his heartbreaking fall after a torn knee ligament and then rotator cuff, and captures Fidrych's post-baseball life to his death in a freak accident in 2009.
Download or read book 12 Reasons to Love the Detroit Tigers written by David Aretha and published by 12-Story Library. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores some of the reasons why fans love the Detroit Tigers. Each spread highlights a different fact, player, story, or tradition that helps define the team.
Download or read book Terror in the City of Champions written by Tom Stanton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller Detroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group was executing a wicked plan of terror, murdering enemies, flogging associates, and contemplating armed rebellion. The Legion boasted tens of thousands of members across the Midwest, among them politicians and prominent citizens—even, possibly, a beloved athlete. Terror in the City of Champions opens with the arrival of Mickey Cochrane, a fiery baseball star who roused the Great Depression’s hardest-hit city by leading the Tigers to the 1934 pennant. A year later he guided the team to its first championship. Within seven months the Lions and Red Wings follow in football and hockey—all while Joe Louis chased boxing’s heavyweight crown. Amidst such glory, the Legion’s dreadful toll grew unchecked: staged “suicides,” bodies dumped along roadsides, high-profile assassination plots. Talkative Dayton Dean’s involvement would deepen as heroic Mickey’s Cochrane’s reputation would rise. But the ballplayer had his own demons, including a close friendship with Harry Bennett, Henry Ford’s brutal union buster. Award-winning author Tom Stanton weaves a stunning tale of history, crime, and sports. Richly portraying 1930s America, Terror in the City of Champions features a pageant of colorful figures: iconic athletes, sanctimonious criminals, scheming industrial titans, a bigoted radio priest, a love-smitten celebrity couple, J. Edgar Hoover, and two future presidents, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. It is a rollicking true story set at the confluence of hard luck, hope, victory, and violence. .
Download or read book The Detroit Tigers written by Fred Lieb and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Lieb's team history of the Detroit Tigers was originally published in 1946 as part of the celebrated series of major league team histories published by G.P. Putnam. With their colourful prose and lively narratives, the Putnam books have been popular among baseball fans ever since.
Download or read book Detroit Tigers 101 written by Brad M. Epstein and published by 101 Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents very basic information and background on baseball and the Detroit Tigers, including team uniforms, notable Detroit Tigers' players, and baseball awards and trophies.
Download or read book The Glory Years of the Detroit Tigers written by William Martin Anderson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines in text and vivid photographs a thirty-year span of Detroit Tigers baseball, from 1920 to 1950. In the three decades between 1920 and 1950, the Detroit Tigers won four American League pennants, the first world championship in team history in 1935, and a second world crown ten years later. Star players of this era--including Ty Cobb, Harry Heilmann, Charlie Gehringer, Hank Greenberg, Mickey Cochrane, George Kell, and Hal Newhouser--represent the majority of Tigers players inducted into the Hall of Fame. Sports writers followed the team feverishly, and fans packed Navin Field (later Briggs Stadium) to cheer on the high-flying Tigers, with the first record season attendance of one million recorded in 1924 and surpassed eight more times before 1950. In The Glory Years of the Detroit Tigers: 1920-1950, author William M. Anderson combines historical narrative and photographs of these years to argue that these years were the greatest in the history of the franchise. Anderson presents over 350 unique and lively images, mostly culled from the remarkable Detroit News archive, that showcase players' personalities as well as their exploits on the field. For their meticulous coverage and colorful style, Anderson consults Tigers reporting from the three daily Detroit newspapers of the era (the Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, and Detroit Times) and the Sporting News, which was known then as the "Baseball Bible." Some especially compelling columns are reproduced intact to give readers a feel for the exciting and careful reporting of these years. Anderson combines historical text with photos in six topical chapters: "Spring Training: When Dreams are Entertained," "Franchise Stars," "The Supporting Cast," "Moments of Glory and Notable Games," "The War Years," and "The Old Ballpark: Where Legends and Memories Were Made." Anderson presents sketches of many fine players who have been overlooked in other histories and visits characters who often acted in strange ways: Dizzy Trout, Gee Walker, Elwood "Boots" "The Baron" Poffenbeger, and Louis "Bobo" "Buck" Newsom. Tigers fans and anyone interested in local sports culture will enjoy this comprehensive and compelling look into the glory years of Tigers history.
Download or read book Tigers Confidential written by Andy Van Slyke and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former MLB All-Star and Gold Glove winner Andy Van Slyke, now the first-base coach of the Detroit Tigers, takes you into the dugout, the clubhouse, and onto the field throughout the 2008 season to give you a rare inside look at the most highly anticipated season in the Tigers' storied 108-year history-day by day, game by game, as it actually unfolded. The book combines Van Slyke's insightful, introspective, sometimes humorous diary from the dugout and the playing field with veteran baseball writer Jim Hawkins' view from the press box in real time as the games actually occurred. Each entry is made without the benefit of hindsight, not knowing what the next game or the next day would bring. Stand beside Van Slyke in the first-base coach's box and sit beside him in the dugout to feel the emotions rise and fall with each win and each loss, as the Detroit Tigers, preseason favorites to win the 2008 American League pennant with their franchise-record $139 million payroll, deal with the daily grind of the 162-game season.
Download or read book The Batboy written by Mike Lupica and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Million-Dollar Throw. Brian is living every baseball kid's dream: he is a batboy for his hometown Major League team. Brian believes that it's the perfect thing to bring him and his big-leaguer dad closer together. And if that weren't enough, this is the season that Hank Bishop, Brian's baseball hero, returns to the Tigers for the comeback of a lifetime. The summer couldn't get much better! Until Hank Bishop starts to show his true colors, and Brian learns that sometimes life throws you a curveball.
Download or read book Detroit Tigers 101 written by Brad M. Epstein and published by 101 Books. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents very basic information and background on baseball and the Detroit Tigers. On board pages.
Download or read book Al Kaline written by Jim Hawkins and published by Triumph Books (IL). This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the amazing life of a hall-of-famer who overcame a deformed foot to go directly from high school to the big leagues, at age 20 became the youngest batting champion in major league history, and went on to play out a storied career with the Detroit Tigers.
Download or read book Good Night Tigers written by Brad Epstein and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Night, Tigers is an adorable bedtime story for every young Detroit Tigers fan.
Download or read book Miguel Cabrera written by Bill Redban and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover The Inspirational Story of Baseball Superstar Miguel Cabrera!Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device!You're about to discover the incredibly inspirational story of baseball superstar Miguel Cabrera. If you're reading this then you must be a Miguel Cabrera fan, like so many others. As a fan, you must wonder how this man is so talented and want to know more about him. Miguel Cabrera is considered as one of the greatest baseball players in the world and it's been an honor to be able to watch him play throughout his career. This book will reveal to you much about Miguel Cabrera's story and the many accomplishments throughout his career.Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... Youth and Family Life School and Minor League Career Professional Career and Personal Life Legacy, Charitable Acts and much more! If you want to learn more about Miguel Cabrera, then this book is for you. It will reveal to you many things that you did not know about this incredible baseball star!About the Author:Inspirational Stories is a series aimed at highlighting the great athletes of our society. Our mission is to present the stories of athletes who are not only impactful in their sport, but also great people outside of it. The athletes we write about have gone above and beyond to become impactful in their community and great role models for the youth, all while showing excellence in their profession. We publish concise, easily consumable books that portray the turning points in the lives of these great athletes, while also giving the context in which they occurred. Our books are especially great for children who look up to sports figures. Hopefully these athletes can serve as a source of inspiration and their stories can provide life lessons that are practical for fans of any demographic.
