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Detroit Tigers mailbag: A middle-of-the-order hitter by any other name would hit the same

Marlins Man, a.k.a. Laurence Leavy, speaks with Dave Birkett on radio row for Super Bowl 54 on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, in Miami. Detroit Free Press

LAKELAND, Fla. — There is sunshine somewhere, I can confirm. There is also baseball.

This winter has been so cloudy, so gray, so cold — the Detroit Tigers even postponed TigerFest — that finding a way down here was more of a need than a want.

People apparently used to ask Rogers Hornsby what he did in winter when there was no baseball.

“I’ll tell you what I do,” Hornsby would say.