The Detroit Tigers (Writing Sports Series)

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A facsimile reproduction of the 1946 history of the Detroit Tigers

Fred Lieb’s team history of the Detroit Tigers was once at the start published in1946 as a part of the celebrated series of major league team histories published by G. P. Putnam. With their colorful prose and delightful narratives, the Putnam books have been described as the Cadillac of team histories and have turn out to be prized collectibles for baseball readers and historians.

High or low in the standings, the Detroit Tigers have all the time been a fighting baseball club. From the time of Watkins’s famous Detroits of the early National League, who in 1887 defeated the St. Louis Browns in a circus fifteen-game World Series, to Steve O’Neill’s Tiger World Champions of 1945, headed by home run king Hank Greenberg, much happened in the early days of Detroit baseball.

The most frightening Tiger of all of them was once the incomparable Ty Cobb, who many argue is the sport’s best player ever. And around Cobb we see the historic cast that won pennants in 1907, 1908, and 1909: Hughie Jennings with his Ee-yah yell from the coaching line, the inimitable Germany Schaefer clowning at second, Walloping Sam Crawford, the great shortstop Donie Bush, dashing George Moriarity, and the pitching titans Smiling Bill Donovan and George Mullin.

The Detroit Tigers is stuffed with anecdotes and intimate glimpses of the players, managers, and owners who all the way through the years have made the Tigers some of the competitive and colorful teams in baseball. The Tigers have all the time given the fans a great show―and so they give the reader an exciting time in this reprint of Fred Lieb’s The Detroit Tigers.


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