The 1968 Detroit Tigers were a special team, uniting a fractured city with a World Series victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. Free Press sports writer Ryan Ford looks back on five key players from that team:
The slugger: Willie Horton
MLB’s 1968 season has been called “The Year of The Pitcher.” An expanded strike zone and pitching mounds that were 15 inches high (as opposed to the 10 inches they had been previously) gave pitchers a huge advantage over hitters, and batting stats plummeted.