When Baseball Was Fun

Our source inside the Tiger’s clubhouse tells us that:
JUSTIN VERLANDER will sign an extended contract for six years worth 88 million
dollars with the last year gauranteed. When? Within a few weeks;
And that although the media is predicting great things for CURTIS GRANDERSON
in a Yankee uniform the Tigers are not believing it for one minute. [...]

MANUEL “MIKE” PAPISTA left us the other day on Saturday, January 23, 2010.
He was our legal advisor for the WBWF, but more than that he’s been a dear
friend ever since I met him on the campus of Southeastern High School in the
Fall of 1944. His smile was infectious and his person was brimming with enthusiasm
and [...]

Most baseball purists say that he was when he made his famous comment
about pitching being about 80% of the game meaning that it’s how you
pitch that baseball that wins baseball games in MLB. WE ALSO AGREE.
If that be the case then the Tigers should be in for one helluva year! They’re
loaded with their starters [...]

In yesterday’s Detroit FREEP, MIKE ROSENBERG writes about the contrite MIGUEL
CABRERA, quoting him as follows:
“I FEEL HAPPY. I FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE. I FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE
EVEN WITH YOU GUYS. I THINK IT’S GOING TO BE A NEW SEASON, A NEW
[...]

After many years of wishing that we had someone on the inside of the Tiger’s
clubhouse whispering the true nitty-gritty of just what’s going on in there…
WE HAVE STRUCK GOLD! Here’s our first SCOOP:
1) Wonder why the Tiger’s parted ways with PLACIDO POLANCO so easily??
[...]

Bobby Hoeft II, who owns & operates the popular GRAND SLAM BATTING CAGES in
Cheasapeake, Virginia, knows one of his best customers very well: SCOTT SIZEMORE.
We have coaxed our son into writing an exclusive story about Scott, which he has
completed. This interesting and exclusive article will appear in the next edition of
the WHEN BASEBALL WAS [...]

From Scottsdale, Arizona, Charlie Milhem, a lifetime subscriber of WBWF, informs
us that GEORGE KELL & MARK FIDRYCH were not the only former Tigers to pass
on in 2009. Here’s seven more.
PURNAL GOLDY, OF in 1962 died on 9-21 at age 71
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