The Detroit Tigers Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472030175 ISBN 13: 9780472030170

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2005

Synopsis

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 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

About this title

About the Author

Tom Stanton has been a journalist for nearly thirty years―and a Detroit Tigers fan for many more. His memoir of Tiger Stadium, The Final Season, is the only book to have won both the Casey and Elysian Fields Quarterly Awards, which are given to the best baseball book of the year. He is also the author of The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime and Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472030175
• ISBN 13: 9780472030170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Stanton Tom