The Tigers of '68
Baseball's Last Real Champions
They had two future Hall of Famers, the last pitcher to win thirty games, and a supporting cast of some of the most peculiar individuals ever to play in the majors. But more than that, the 1968 Detroit Tigers symbolize a lost era in baseball.It was a time before runaway salaries and designated hitters. Before divisional playoffs and drug suspensions. Before teams measured their well-being by the number of corporate boxes in their ballpark and the cable contract in their pocket. It was the last season of baseball's most colorful and nostalgic period.It was surely not a more innocent time. The 1968 Tigers were a team of hell-raisers, the second…
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- ISBN: 978-1-58979-928-8
- EAN: 9781589799288
- Produktnummer: 15188348
- Verlag: Taylor Trade Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 242 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.3 cm 374 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 374
Über den Autor
George Cantor worked as a reporter, columnist, and editor for 39 years at both the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press. He also wrote for the Detroit Jewish News and taught sports writing at Oakland University. He is also the author of Courtney's Legacy, the story about his daughter's accidental death at the age of eighteen. He died in 2010.
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