[cripplecreek]

Still working for the Tigers to this day.



Born December 19th 1934 Baltimore

18× All-Star (1955–1961, 1962–1967, 1971, 1974)

World Series champion (1968)

10× Gold Glove Award (1957–1959, 1961–1967)

Roberto Clemente Award (1973)

AL batting champion (1955)

Detroit Tigers #6 retired

Kaline started playing for the Tigers right out of High School and played his entire major league career with the Tigers.

[dfwgator]

[NotSoFreeStater]

So is my Mom!

[shove_it]

As a kid playing sandlot baseball in Detroit, Al Kaline was my favorite player. He had a deadly throwing arm which he used to pick off base-runners who hit singles to him in right field then rounded first base - he’d leisurely field the ball then whip it to the firstbaseman who’d tag out the runner scrambling back to the base. I got his autograph shortly after he made it to the Tigers as a rookie — he was delighted to give it to me. In those days, grandstand tickets in the outfield were 75 cent$ as I recall at Briggs Stadium.

[nascarnation]

We used to have these potato chips when I was a little kid growing up in Cleveland. As an Indians fan I could never understand why they were on Al Kaline's side?

(true story)

[onedoug]

Happy Birthday, Al. Many happy returns.

[tomkat]

Six years old when my dad and the neighbor guy took me to see my first pro baseball game - Detroit, June '61, Tigers/Yankees .

Kaline/Cash/Lolich et al
Maris/Mantle/Richardson/Berra et al
Yep, Maris' * year

Talk about your 'wish I could go back knowing what I know now' !

To a little kid, it was absolute magic, and the field looked so H U G E

<sniff>

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Al Kaline: The ball player who was so good, they named a battery after him.

[mj81]

Bat day 1968, seated in upper deck, right field. Got Kaline’s bat.... Lucky number? Six.

Been a devoted Tiger fan ever since.

Mother sold the bat when I was away at college.... Damn it.