Cooperstown, N.Y. — During his 20-year run as Tigers shortstop, Alan Trammell was keen on playing smoothly and efficiently, minus flash or complications.
Jack Morris took a different approach. He spiced his pitching dynamics with emotions that sometimes generated as much heat as his fastball and as much frustration as his pet split-finger pitch.
Sunday at Cooperstown, on a summer afternoon suited to porch swings and to lemonade, not to mention sunscreen, each man turned his Baseball Hall of Fame induction speech into a precise imitation of how he played big-league baseball in Detroit.
Their styles and profiles shined atop a dais where they joined with Chipper Jones, Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome and Trevor Hoffman in being handed Baseball Hall of Fame plaques forever housed in Cooperstown’s gallery of greats.