When Baseball Was Fun

The first “R” stands for “RED” BOROM…As I sat reading two days ago I picked
up the phone and it’s none other than the oldest Tiger still alive on this planet
at 94 years young: RED BOROM, calling me from Dallas to announce that he
had a new subscriber for WBWF from Japan!!!!!!! OH THE PERKS [...]

We trained in San Bernadinio, California, in 1953, and we had started to make our way
back north for the start of the season. We stopped off and checked into a hotel in Phoenix
to play the White Sox. Hal White and I had really enjoyed getting to know SATCHEL PAIGE
and I guess we just weren’t thinking [...]

Who said it? I’ve said it over and over, but the above statement is taken from this
morning’s FREE PRESS in M I T C H A L B O M ‘ S column. He goes on to say
that the reason it’s NOT LEVEL [...]

In March of 2008 WBWF received the following statement from ERNIE:
“IT’S AN HONOR TO BE CHOSEN BY WBWF TO INTRODUCE THE GREATEST
TIGER TEAM IN HISTORY. THANKS BOBBY FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.” Let’s
listen.
“First out of the dugout is …….CHARLES LEANARD GEHRINGER at 2B.
Hitting second and now galloping out to right field is the greatest
MLB player of all [...]

Much is being written about what the Tigers are going to do in
Indianapolis at the MLB meetings this week, however we have
not read anything about probably the biggest factor of all:
MIKE ILITCH IS 80 YEARS OLD!
Why is this a big [...]

In Webster’s dictionary the word coalition is described as: “a temporary
alliance of distinct parties for joint action.”
The WBWF Quarterly is begining to form the SAVING MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
COALTION (SMLBC). We are convinced that MLB is in serious trouble. We
sincerely believe that if a salary cap is not formed ASAP , the Yankees, Red
Sox, Angels, [...]

CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG BUT WEREN”T THE THE TIGERS PAYING
HIM $4.6 MIL??? You mean for a paltry $1.4 mil we lost the 4th
greatest second basemen in Tiger history (Gehringer, Whittaker, and
McAuliffe were ahead of him) ???
THEY DIDN’T EVEN OFFER HIM SALARY ARBITRATION. IF THEY HAD
AT LEAST THEY WOULD HAVE RECEIVED SOME HIGH [...]