Detroit Tigers, Lists and More,Runs, Hits, and (with an introduction by Dale Petroskey, President, National Baseball Hall of Fame. This item is unavailable.Detroit Tigers, Lists and More,Runs, Hits, and (with an introduction by Dale Petroskey, President, National Baseball Hall of Fame

A wide-ranging compilation of facts, statistics, stories, and entertaining speculation, this book will surprise even the most avid fan of the Detroit Tigers. Published in the wake of the Tigers' American League centennial, it pays tribute to the team of Ty Cobb, Al Kaline, and Hank Greenberg, to name but a few of Detroit's Baseball Hall of Famers. Here two longtime Tigers experts - journalist Mark Pattison and statistician David Raglin - have distilled a hundred-plus years of Detroit baseball history into more than four hundred lists. In this entertaining and fascinating collection, readers will find information not available elsewhere, such as the starting eight Mayo Smith used for all seven games of the 1968 World Series, or the 1987 "Showdown Series" where the Tigers and the Toronto Blue Jays battled for the AL East pennant. "Inside this book," writes Dale Petroskey, "is the stuff that young baseball fans grew up on, and the stuff that older baseball fans get to relive their youth with."

Mark Pattison is a journalist with Catholic News Service and was formerly managing editor of The Northeast Detroiter. David Raglin is a statistician for the U.S. Census Bureau. For the past 18 years, Raglin has written Tigers Stripes, the statistical newsletter of the Mayo Smith Society - a 1,200 member fan club founded in 1983 in Washington, D.C., by Michigan natives who missed their favorite team. Dale Petroskey is the president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.