The Detroit Tigers
A Pictorial Celebration of the Greatest Players and Moments in Tigers History
By William M. Anderson
With a Foreword by David Dombrowski
Cloth - 9780814334140
Price: $39.95L
Published 2008
Size: 8 x 10, Pages: 328, Illustrations: 507
Subjects: Regional Studies: Detroit, Sports
Series: Great Lakes Books Series
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Description
The new edition of The Detroit Tigers begins with the historic final season of baseball at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull and prepares for a new century of baseball at Comerica Park, where the team has already made memories. Among the recent highlights covered in this volume are the Tigers being crowned American League champions in October 2006, Justin Verlander’s no-hitter in June 2007, and the Tigers’ historic trade in December 2007, which placed the team among the elite in baseball for the 2008 season. Anderson has traveled the county to find the most interesting and rarely seen photos for this volume, visiting all major repositories of baseball photographs as well as private collections. Presented chronologically with ample description, the photos form the core of this one-of-a-kind book.
The new edition of The Detroit Tigers also includes a foreword by current president, CEO, and general manager of the Tigers, David Dombrowski. Tigers fans old and new will appreciate the exhaustive history and striking images presented in this volume.
Published by Wayne State University Press
Author(s)
William M. Anderson is director of the Michigan Department of History, Arts, and Libraries. He is retired from a thirty-three year career in higher education, during which he served as president of Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois, and West Shore Community College near Scottville, Michigan. Dr. Anderson is a widely published baseball and Civil War historian, a past president of the Historical Society of Michigan, and a past member of the Michigan Humanities Council.
Reviews
“Over five hundred carefully selected photographs, many of which have not been published before, complement commentary on the highlights and lowlights of each season. The new edition salutes the historic final season of baseball at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull and welcomes a new century of baseball at Comerica Park.”
— Michigan History
“Enhanced with hundreds of black and white photographs and notable player statistics, The Detroit Tigers is an ideal gift for any Tigers fan, and highly recommended for community library sports collections.”
— Midwest Book Review
“A must-read for any Tigers fan. The pictures alone give you goosebumps.''
— Rob Parker, sports columnist at the Detroit News
“From the corner of Michigan and Trumbull to frontage on Woodward Avenue, the Detroit Tigers have witnessed some of the greatest moments in baseball. Bill Anderson’s updated pictorial history includes amazing photographs of these moments and the players, many of which have never before been published and all of which will be treasured by Tigers fans.”
— Ernie Harwell, Hall of Fame baseball announcer and author of Tuned to Baseball and other books
"What sets Anderson's volume apart [from other picture books] is hard-driving, no-nonsense narrative history of the Tigers and a keen eye in selecting great photographs, reflecting vibrant action, poignant moments, and the rare and unusual."
— Aethlon
"The book is a gem, the most comprehensive photographic history of the Tigers ever published."
— Lloyd Wallace, Ludington Daily News
"Detroit fans will cherish this book... a very attractive volume."
— The Sporting News