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Tiger Stadium memories
It was Briggs Stadium to me. An uncle took me and my father to Briggs almost every summer in the 1950s. My first memory is Hoot Evers hitting a home run in the last of the 10th. inning in 1950 to beat the Philadelphia Athletics 2-1. I saw Ted Williams play twice, the best being the Tigers winning a doubleheader with Williams going like 8 for 9 and Charlie "Paw Paw" Maxwell (the Sunday slugger) outhitting Williams in both games. I saw Harvey Kuenn win a game with a homer in the bottom of the ninth. On the losing side Billy Hoeft threw a bunted ball into right field and got clobbered by the Yankees 15-0. My last game there was the summer of '62 with the Tigers rallying for like 7 runs in the bottom of the 9th. but still losing to the White Sox by one run.
My favorites over the years were George Kell, Frank Lary (Yankee killer), Frank Bolling (second base), Ned Garver, Bill Tuttle, Harvey Kuenn, and then later Al Kaline, Bill Freeham, Mickey Lolich, and Dennis McClain to name just a few.
By the way I stuck with the Tigers during their bad times in the 1950s, but then I was just a 9 to 17 year-old - what did I know?
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