Now it’s more complete, that baseball party from the 1980s, when Tiger Stadium was home to all those seasons of revelry and when Ernie Harwell’s or George Kell’s voice made Tigers games as much theater as baseball.
Now the Tigers have two Hall of Fame players to go with that World Series parade from 1984. Now they’ll have a couple of plaques in Cooperstown alongside the one for their manager, Sparky Anderson, earned 17 years ago.
Alan Trammell and Jack Morris are headed to a quaint place in New York for next July’s yearly summer lawn-fest, all after they scored on Sunday’s vote by the Modern Era Committee.