Alan Trammell, who played for the Tigers his entire career from 1977-96, talks about getting his feet wet at Cooperstown before Sunday's induction.
Cooperstown, N.Y. – Cutting through Canada, it's just a little less than 500 miles from downtown Detroit to this quaint, rolling-hill town were the local industry is baseball and, well, more baseball.
But the distance might as well be too the moon and back.
It's been 26 years since a man entered the Baseball Hall of Fame as a Detroit Tiger. That was Prince Hal Newhouser. Sure, Sparky Anderson went in back in 2000, but, oddly, as a Cincinnati Red, even though he managed the Tigers twice as long as he did "The Big Red Machine.