Showing posts with label Detroit Tigers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Detroit Tigers. Show all posts

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Split handed, split fingered.

 Leon 'Daddy Wags' Wagner

 Mr. Tiger, Al Kaline.

 This was quite a unique card, especially for 1991 Score of all things.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Great Canadians. John Hiller.

There aren't a ton of major leaguers from Canada, but a lot of them have been very good. Not surprising that there's been an increase lately, as the generation that grew up watching the Blue Jays winning the World Series is reaching the bigs.

Born: April 8, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, CAN

Random stat. Hiller's ERA+ in 1973 was 286. That's just freaking incredible.

Hiller played 15 seasons, all for Detroit. He famously missed the entire 1971 season after suffering a heart attack, but came back from that as a better pitcher than he was before.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Two unlikely looking MVP's.


















Jim Konstanty &
Denny McLain

Konstanty seems to have been a questionable choice for MVP in 1950, it could be argued that he wasn't even the best pitcher on his own team. He started and lost game one of the series, despite pitching very well. He then blew a save in game 3, and pitched 6+ innings in  relief in game 4, giving up 3 runs. Sadly the Phils got swept 4-0 by the big bad Yankees.

McLain swept the voting, getting all the first place MVP votes and all the Cy Young votes. In 1969 McLain shared the Cy with Mike Cuellar, although he did get more MVP votes than Mike. Who'd have thought then that he wouldn't pitch past 1972, when he was only 28?