AL CENTRAL: Tigers' hope early promotions provide a spark
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We mimicked Kell, and we admired him
Detroit Free Press, United StatesAnd who can forget when Mark Fidrych went to the mound on May 15, 1976, against Cleveland at Tiger Stadium? Kell told color analyst Al Kaline, "That kid looks a little squirrely out there, Al." Kell innocently got names mixed up or simply forgot them ...
D-Train's derailing a tale of woe -- and warning
CBSSports.comHe was compared to the young Dwight Gooden, and the young Mark Fidrych, and the young Tom Seaver. While nobody thought he would stay Seaver forever, neither did anyone think he would be Fidrych, the definition of the high-contrast flash in the pan. ...
Jacobs backs Detroit
Hartford Courant, United StatesI regaled him with stories how I covered Mark Fidrych pitching the Tigers' home opener in the late Seventies. I even told him how you sent us Gordie Howe (Mr. Hockey), we sent you Dan Orlovsky (Mr. Step Out Of The End Zone Without Knowing It) and we ...
Baseball Anxious To Learn the Truth About Dontrelle Willis
Bleacher Report, CAMagnetic, in a Vida Blue, Mark Fidrych, Fernando Valenzuela sort of way. An arm seemingly elastic as a rubber band. Once upon a time, Dontrelle Willis possessed all these things. Now he's in a symbolic straight-jacket, a prisoner of fear, ...
Time to wake up…
Mets GeekThe new and exciting MLB Network has been an awfully nice offseason fix- for example, when I was a kid, my dad used to talk about what a nut Mark Fidrych was; it was really nice to finally get to see him in action when they replayed a 1976 game in ...
Tim Robinson: Pitching key to fast start for Tigers in '09
Livingston Daily, MIBonderman and Joel Zumaya, fast becoming the Mark Fidrych of the new millennium (loads of promise, injury-prone) aren't around for the start of the season and it's hard to say when. So guys like Eddie Bonine, who pitched five games for the Tigers last ...
Spring Training provides many lessons
MLB.comFidrych lit up Detroit and the nation with his antics and 19-9 record in 1976, then crash-landed, winning only 10 more games the rest of his brief five-year career. Willis, who also occasionally talks to himself (or the ball) on the mound, ...
Closer Rodriguez gives Mets a decided edge
Newsday, NYManuel compared K-Rod in a good way to former Tigers pitcher Mark Fidrych, who was known for his bizarre behavior on the mound, which included talking to the baseball. The manager believes that a guy like Rodriguez "is needed in our industry, ...
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