Al Kaline (Photo by: 1973 SPX/Diamond Images via Getty Images)
Al Kaline joined baseball’s 3,000-hit club in 1974, the final season of a legendary career spent exclusively with the Detroit Tigers. The story of his journey to get there concludes here.
(Click here for links to the first three parts of “Chasing 3,000: Detroit Tiger Al Kaline in 1974”.)
Kaline’s quest for 3,000 hits brought him back to where it all began on September 24. Baltimore wasn’t just where he and the Tigers began the 1974 season. Long before that, it was where Kaline began playing baseball as a young boy.