Good one! I think I recognized Al Kaline’s name before my own.
I was on the school bus headed home when they won the last Cardinal game in MO. Someone had a transistor radio. My dad went walleye fishing regularly with a friend who used to be Tiger’s minor league....Mud Hens?
Would love to hear one of those classic games called by Ernie Harwell again. Someone mentioned Ray Oyler. Boy that’s a name I haven’t heard in awhile.
Ray Oyler...Good shortstop!!!!
Saw him in the minors with Knoxville Smokies...
Toledo Mud Hens are formerly and currently the minor-league team of the Tigers, but the Mud Hens that drove Cpl. Maxwell Klinger nuts and would have been around when Kaline was young moved to Wichita. Klinger’s character was deliberately written to help the new (since 1965) Mud Hens seem like an older, more established team.
Don’t ask me why I know that. Let’s just say in college, I was nicknamed, “Cliffy.”