(Reuters) - Baseball Hall of Famer Al Kaline, one of the most beloved and distinguished players of his era who spent his entire 22-year Major League Baseball career with the Detroit Tigers, died on ...
Al Kaline, who in a long and unique Detroit Tigers lifetime grew from youthful batting champion to Hall of Famer to distinguished elder statesman, died Monday afternoon at his home in Bloomfield Hills ...
. (From Chapter 1: Mr. Tiger) They don’t make baseball players like Al Kaline anymore. That is what is wrong with the not-always-so-grand old game today. No salacious scandal has ever tainted his name ...
Al Kaline’s signature accomplishment as the youngest player to win a batting crown quickly became an albatross that nearly derailed a Hall of Fame career. Sixty-five years ago, in his second full ...
My father was born in suburban Detroit in 1957. He was 11 years old when the Detroit Tigers beat Bob Gibson and the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1968 World Series. I remember my father’s eyes would ...
DETROIT (AP) — Al Kaline, who spent his entire 22-season Hall of Fame career with the Detroit Tigers and was known affectionately as "Mr. Tiger," died Monday. He was 85. John Morad, a friend of Kaline ...
INCREDIBLE AS it seems to those of us who have followed his career from the beginning, Al Kaline turned 60 this past Monday. Most of us who knew him as a high school baseball phenomenon have a hard ...
Baseball Hall of Famer Al Kaline, the longtime Detroit Tigers right fielder, broadcaster and team ambassador, died Monday afternoon, according to the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office. He was ...
DETROIT -- Wayne Comer, a member of the Detroit Tigers’ 1968 World Series championship team, passed away Wednesday at the age of 79. Comer was called up to the big-league club from Toledo when star ...
Detroit Tigers great Al Kaline has died at the age of 85 according to a member of the organization. John Morad, a friend of Kaline’s, confirmed to The Associated Press that he died Monday at his home ...