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56 quotes found searching on Location: Detroit
King Tut? What's that, a new rock group?
Mark Steven "The Bird" Fidrych
Detroit Tigers
Pitcher
On August 2, 1907, I encountered the most threatning sight I ever saw on the ballfield. He was only a rookie, and we licked our lips as we warmed up for the first game of a doubleheader in Washington. Evidently the manager of the Senators had picked a rube out of the cornfields of the deepest bushes to pitch against us.....He was a tall, shambling galoot of about 20 with arms so long they hung out of his sleeves and with a sidearm delivery that looked unimpressive at first glance.....One of us imitated a cow mooing and we hollered at the manager: 'get your pitchfork ready, your hayseed's on his way back to the barn'......The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him....every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939
Contributed by: Anthony Sikorski
I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.
Detroit Tigers
1B
a.k.a., "Stormin' Norman"
Contributed by: Jonathan Chapman
You're a Red Sox fan? There's nothing wrong with being a Red Sox fan. Let me tell you why. When they go to spring training, the first song they sing, because I used to sing it to them in Winter Haven, is "Wait Till Next Year". That's why you never want to stop being a Red Sox fan. You've always got next year.
George Lee "Sparky" Anderson
Detroit Tigers
Manager
HOF 2000
I would have had zero career if not for the bucking of minds that Sparky and I had in '83. Sparky was very clear that some things I was doing went directly against what is successful and competitive. He wasn't going to allow me to do them.
Kirk Harold Gibson
Detroit Tigers
OF
Babe Ruth is in the cemetery, and the game goes on.
Detroit Tigers
Manager
HOF 2000
It's a team thing, and baseball is a team sport. It's the thing you dream about. The other awards, like the All-Star team or Gold Gloves, are individual accomplishments. But a lot of great players have never had the chance to play in a World Series, so it's the greatest thrill.
William Ashley "Bill" Freehan
Detroit Tigers
Catcher
Pro-rated at 500 at-bats per year, my 1,081 strike-outs would mean that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never touched the ball.
Detroit Tigers
1B
a.k.a., "Stormin' Norman"
Walter's idea of a changeup was to just throw harder. It wasn't long after he came to Washington that some of our hitters, arriving in Walter's vicinity, were reporting to the sick list.
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939
A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
Detroit Tigers
Manager
HOF 2000
Contributed by: Jonathan Chapman
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