The Tigers of '68 : Baseball's Last Real Champions (Paperback)

from mysterymax

The Tigers of '68 was entertaining and informative. It followed the individual players both in their pre-Tigers career and in their post-Tigers lives. It related the events of many of the games played that year and it talked about the changes that have happened to baseball, Detroit and the nation...

from ShoreTurtle

I missed out on the 1968 team. I grew up with the Tigers teams of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The 1968 team was the benchmark for comparison. I knew most of the names prior to reading this book, but George Cantor made the personalities and season come alive. What an amazing season. I enjoyed ...

from hardlyhardy

The year 1968 was a turbulent one in the U.S. It was a year of assassination, a year of violent demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and yet another year of war in Vietnam. Yet it was also one of the best years of my life, the year I married my true love, the year I mov...

from michigantrumpet

Every time I fill out a scorecard at the ballpark, I am always transported to my youth, sitting next to my Dad in the upper deck bleachers of Tiger Stadium learning to keep score, getting sick on popcorn and hoping a ball might make its way to my little baseball glove. For years, I was convinced ...

from chillybee

This book belongs to a genre I call "sports nostalgia" (if there is not such a genre, there should be). Books in this genre turn the spotlight on important events or personalities in a bygone era, allowing the reader the enjoyment of learning about, or remembering, past glories and--if done well-...