Oh the Tigers of my boyhood. PawPaw Maxwell, Al Kaline, Harvey Kuenn, Jim Bunning, Frank Lary and Paul Foytack pitching, Eddie Yost at 3rd. Briggs Stadium. We had it all, except for the fact that the stinkin' Yankees kept gettin' in front of us. They were the big prima donas then, some things never change.
I threw away a dozen Mickey Mantle cards. Kinda like the Cub's Bleacher Ethics: "Throw it back!! I'm proud that I stood up FOR PRINCIPLES.
"I threw away a dozen Mickey Mantle cards." WHY?????....Two or three of them connected to the front wheel fork of my Schwinn Typhoon, ( which I STILL have), with a clothespin, sounded really neat against the spokes...