Miguel Cabrera celebrates after hitting his 500th career home run. (Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images)
Detroit Tigers fans, and the baseball world at large, are still aglow after Miguel Cabrera hit his historic 500th home run last Sunday in Toronto.
For national writers it was a chance to offer retrospectives, or peer into the future and project the next members of the 500 Club. For Detroit Tigers fans? It was a little bittersweet.
They spent the previous week packing Comerica Park and breathlessly hanging on every Miguel Cabrera swing, only for the moment to happen 230 miles (390 kilometers) away.