Today's Free Press has an interesting story about Jose Feliciano singing the anthem before Game 5 of the '68 WS -- a game my mom attended.
Flashback: Jose Feliciano makes anthem history at Tiger Stadium
http://www.freep.com/article/20081008/SPORTS02/81008002/1050/SPORTS02
A discussion of the Detroit Tigers past, present and future.
Le Grand Orange
Best DH Season for a Bengal
Guillermo is Tops in Our Opinion!
Willie Hernandez posted the best relief season in the history of the Tigers.
The Best Season in Left?
The Rock, no doubt
Ty Cobb
Clearly, we picked Cobb as having the best year in center
Kaline narrowly wins our poll
for best season in right.
George Kell, 1949
The best Tiger season at third
It's Unanimous, Tram had the Best Season at Short
By Acclaim!
Who had the best season at first?
Hammerin' Hank Greenberg, that's who
My Kind of Town
Toledo is our favorite minor league stadium
Old Yankee Stadium - Our Favorite
Winning our poll for favorite non-functioning ball park-Yankee Stadium
Wrigley Field: Our favorite (non-Detroit) operating MLB park
By narrow vote over Fenway, it's Wrigley Field
Sparky Anderson - The Greatest Skipper
With the election of Spark, we complete our little Hot Stove project of selecting the Greatest Tiger Team. This was fun.
Who Was the Greatest Tiger Reliever, DH/PH
We resoundingly agree that Willie Hernandez was the best reliever, but we tied on Rusty Staub or Daryl Evans for DH or pinch hitter
Kaline is the Unanimous Rightfielder
In our second consecutive unanimous vote, Al Kaline, is chosen as the Greatest Tiger Rightfielder!
Cobb is Unanimous!
Nobody liked him, but we agree he was the best in center
Willie is Our man in Left!
Willie Horton is our choice for the greatest Tiger in left field
Good Ol' George Kell, the Best Tiger at the Hot Corner
At least by our vote, he's been elected. (BTW, thanks to Tom Haggerty for the write up on all the third basemen.)
Tram Stands Tall at Short
Tiger's Super Second Sacker - Gehringer in a Lanslide!
Once again, I was overwhelmingly out-voted, Charlie Gehringer wins.
Heaven's First Baseman
Hank Greenberg, elected as the Greatest Tiger firstbaseman in History
Our Tiger Hall of Fame
Bill Freehan, catcher
Wow. Couldn't Mom, know thing nutsy baseball fan you were, have let you have the ticket?
ReplyDelete(I was deeply hurt when my brother got a ticket to the series and he took my Dad. Brother explained, "Hey, after all the ball games the old man has taken us to?..."
Mom went down to Michigan & Trumbull the day WS tix went on sale, stood in line, and got two tickets (max allowed, I think, or most she could afford) to games 3, 4 & 5. I went to game 3 (on Saturday) w/ one of my sisters. We sat in the lower deck bleachers out beyond the flagpole in CF. Earl Wilson started and the Tigers lost. Two of my other sisters went to game 4 on Sunday, when McLain lost in a game that should have been called because of rain. Game 5was Monday so we were in school. Mom went with, if memory serves, a friend of my sisters who was able to get out of school.
ReplyDeleteAlso regarding Jose's version of the anthem, I thought it was different but took no offense. I didn't understand what all the fuss was about.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite version of the anthem is the one Marvin Gaye performed before an NBA all star game.