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Henning: Parrish can look back, and wince, at Tigers catching career

Comstock Park – He turns 62 on Friday, which doesn’t seem right to those of us who remember when he first arrived in Detroit, 41 years ago, looking like a Roman soldier tucked within catching gear.

Lance Parrish became as integral to those great Tigers teams from the 1980s as Trammell, Whitaker, Gibson, Morris, Petry, etc.

Now, it's four decades later and all this Tigers lineage yet flows from a man who on Monday was sitting behind a desk in the manager’s office at Fifth Third Ballpark. There was a laptop in place, a flat-screen TV overhead, a beverage cooler in the back, and a cushy brown chair to his left.