The Detroit Tigers Reader

by 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 show more 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 show less

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Tom Stanton
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Tom Stanton is the author of several critically acclaimed nonfiction, books, including The Final Season and Ty and The Babe. A longtime journalist, he co-founded the suburban Detroit Voice newspapers, and teaches at the University of Detroit Mercy. A former Knight-Walface Fellow at the University of Michigan, he lives with wife, Beth show more Bagley-Stanton, in New Baltimore, Michigan. show less

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Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS
796.357 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Athletic and outdoor sports and games Ball sports Ball and stick sports Baseball
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GV875 .D6 .D48 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports Ball games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
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