While I was growing up, my summers were filled with Tiger baseball. A lot of my time was spent with my father, working in the yard where the radio carried the voice of the great Ernie Harwell or we might be in the garage watching a small TV tuned to channel 4 while George Kell and Al Kaline gave their commentary.Today a legend of Tiger baseball, George Kell (86) has passed away.
George Kell was a Detroit Tiger broadcaster for nearly forty years and from 1943-1957 he played with the Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles. He actually beat out the great Ted Williams by a few percentage points for the 1949 batting crown, hitting .34291 while the Boston Red Sox great finished at .34276. Ten times he was an All-Star while playing third base.
He was truly a great man and loved the Tigers. Heaven has found another player for their angelic team. Rest well.
The Hale family (John, Cori, Bradley and Jack) came by the Romulus Fire Station #2 for a tour last Tuesday. It was the day of a downpour and they had to come from South Lyon, I believe. They were somewhat late, but they managed to get there.
While talking with them, I found that they were sports fans and I suggested they listen to our show. I heard they did tune in last Friday and hopefully they’ll listen to us every week. We are glad to have them join our ST60 family and wish them well.
Everyone here at Sports Talk “60″ would like to send our thoughts and prayers to the families affected in the tragedy involving Detroit lion Corey Smith, NFL player Marquis Cooper and Will Bleakley.
Covering the lions, Chip and I get a chance to talk to these guys at camp and practice, and it hurts when something like this happens. Let’s hope that a miracle occurs and they are found.
Our prayers also are sent to Nick Schuyler in hopes of a full recovery. Please keep them all in your thoughts.
Well, here we are down in Florida where the weather is a cool 54 degrees, but who cares about temperatures when there’s Spring Training. In cities such as Lakeland, Clearwater, St. Pete, Tampa, Dunedin, Sarasota the boys of summer are getting ready for the 2009 season.
This is one of the best rituals of spring, where people get to see some of their favorite teams and players tune themselves up for the forthcoming grind of (162) games. This is also a time when media writers and fans pay close attention, waiting for off season moves or just hoping their favorite player resumes where he left off last year.
We still don’t know where the roads are leading us tomorrow, but for tonight we’re relaxing in our hotel room after covering nearly (300) miles of Florida roads today.
We finally got our (virtual) Matt Treanor bobblehead. Check it out.
Chip and I are trying to decide whether we should push for our mugs to be on a Sportstalk “60″ bobblehead or a dart board. How about helping us to decide.
The bobblehead is on the next page. Watching it all the time was giving me a sore neck and a headache. No worry’s, one click and Bob’s your uncle.
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