We unearthed thousands of Free Press photo negatives and one sports writer's score book to tell the tale of baseball's greats. "Bless you, boys." Brian Kaufman, Detroit Free Press
When the Detroit Tigers won the World Series 50 years ago this fall, almost no one understood the quirky inclinations of the team’s soft-spoken owner, John Fetzer.
Even fewer cared in 1984 when the Tigers won a second World Series, this time under a new owner — Domino’s Pizza king Tom Monaghan. Yet, the low-key Fetzer was still the Tigers’ club chairman. And clearly, it was Fetzer who had built that second team of champions.