When Baseball Was Fun

When Virgil Trucks was just knee high to a grass hopper down in deep Alabama a big
league scout saw him throwing stones at squirrels. As he knocked one out after another
the scout was so impressed that he asked the young Virgil to take him to see his daddy.
The scout [...]

“RED” BOROM, the oldest living Tiger at 95, shares some of his keen insights in this
WBWF exclusive. Borom, who now resides in Dallas, was born on October 30, 1915,
in Spartanburg, SC, and tells us that his first job as a yougster was delivering the ATLANTA
CONSTITUTION NEWSPAPER.
His sports hero growing up was: “JIMMY FOX, A [...]

It’s all about the TIGERS! OLD SCHOOL AND NEW SCHOOL AS WELL. It was set up originally
as just a hobby by bobby hoeft. However, one huge step after another and now it’s an
exciting Tiger journal finding it’s way into the hands of it’s readers four times a year. Over
sixty former Tigers are now [...]

How does MARCUS THAMES get away with standing completely out of the batters box?
Watch his back right foot? It’s about 3-4″ out of the box, and that’s strictly a NO NO.
Can anyone explain to us why MIGUEL CABRERA wears his baseball pants down at his ankles
for one game and then up around his knees (the [...]

In a recent article in the Detroit News we read with interest a story about why the Tigers lost the pennant in 1950 because toward the end of the year Aaron Robinson, the Tiger’s catcher, failed to tag out a runner at the plate during the last series of the year against the Indians.  We [...]

What makes the cell phone, lap top agent leaden ball players of today all that different from the old scholl happy go-lucky players of yesteryear? Guess what? The answer isn’t really all that complicated.
When the ball players of the middle century were growing up they swarmed out of their homes early in the [...]